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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:43:00 +0200
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 0/3] qdev-ify network cards
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Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

  Hi,

Short RfC patch series to get the discussion rolling.  We really need to
get the nic drivers qdev-ified properly, so qemu stops segfaulting on
'-device $any_nic_here'.

To keep things small simple I've started with the ne2k_isa.  All the PCI
nics share the initialization path and thus I can't simply pick a single
one as example and convert it.

The network card can now be created using ...

  -device ne2k_isa,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55,vlan=0,irq=3,id=foo

'info qtree' shows ...

	[ ... ]
        bus: isa.0
          type ISA
          dev: ne2k_isa, id "foo"
            dev-prop: iobase = 0x300
            dev-prop: irq = 3
            dev-prop: vlan = 1
            dev-prop: mac = 00:11:22:33:44:55
	[ ... ]

'info network' shows:

	[ ... ]
	VLAN 1 devices:
	  foo: model=ne2k_isa,macaddr=00:11:22:33:44:55

The nic initialization code calls qemu_new_vlan_client() with the
vlan specified using the vlan property.  Likewise the device cleanup
code should call qemu_del_vlan_client.  You don't see that in the
patches though as ISA devices are not hot-pluggable ;)

struct NICInfo is not needed at all here.  I hope we can kill it long-term.

This patch series is also available here:
  http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=qemu-kraxel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nic.v1

You might find it useful to have a look at the qbus patches.  Especially
the hotplug patches which add device_add and device_del monitor
commands.  The patches are on the qemu-devel list too and also here:
   http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=qemu-kraxel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/qbus.v2

cheers,
  Gerd