From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:14:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812091714.41583.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209182027.37515e6e.kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
> > Documentation improvement is always welcome though. If you think the
> > default help output or man pages can be clarified to make this more
> > clear, that's certainly a reasonable thing to do.
>
> Or atleast accept vnet as an argument to make the transition
> somewhere in the future.
When exactly?
IMHO we should either rename the option, support both names indefinitely, or
we leave things as they are. Spewing warnings to stderr seems like the worst
of both worlds. In practice it's likely to just cause annoyance and be
ignored until the option actually goes away.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 15:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated Gildas
2008-12-09 15:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 17:20 ` Kristoffer Ericson
2008-12-09 16:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 16:51 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-09 17:14 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-12-09 15:37 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-09 15:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 15:58 ` Gildas
2008-12-09 16:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 16:30 ` Gildas
2008-12-09 21:36 ` Luca Bigliardi
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