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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as
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> > 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