From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA5Im-000679-Sg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:19:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA5Il-00066L-4u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:19:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46012 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LA5Ik-00066C-Qo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:19:10 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com ([209.85.219.21]:62766) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LA5Ik-0004GY-8w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:19:10 -0500 Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so8828ewy.10 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:19:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:20:27 +0100 From: Kristoffer Ericson Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated Message-Id: <20081209182027.37515e6e.kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <493E8EED.6050308@codemonkey.ws> References: <493E8EED.6050308@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__9_Dec_2008_18_20_27_+0100_0M.KqkE=ygDQ1=Rc" Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --Signature=_Tue__9_Dec_2008_18_20_27_+0100_0M.KqkE=ygDQ1=Rc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:29:49 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Gildas wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As I agree with the thread "vlan option is misleading, what about vnet > > ?" and I found sending a patch would be more constructive than a "+1", > > here it is. > > =20 >=20 > I don't think this is a good idea. vlan has been the option name for a=20 > long time and changing it now will lead to quite a lot of confusion. I=20 > agree that it's not perhaps the best name but it's too late now to=20 > change it. I understand your point but keeping something that "everyone" agrees is misleading (myself included) just because it's been used in the past is silly. >=20 > Documentation improvement is always welcome though. If you think the=20 > default help output or man pages can be clarified to make this more=20 > clear, that's certainly a reasonable thing to do. >=20 Or atleast accept vnet as an argument to make the transition somewhere in the future. > Regards, >=20 > Anthony Liguori >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 Kristoffer Ericson --Signature=_Tue__9_Dec_2008_18_20_27_+0100_0M.KqkE=ygDQ1=Rc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk+qNsACgkQPQls10ERAGf+7wCbBU7wJXKVvzOYTbaePv7aaQcy +hkAoJeaafh03xPVpA62RcELHjSZwq8r =i4a5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__9_Dec_2008_18_20_27_+0100_0M.KqkE=ygDQ1=Rc--