From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37389 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OLf0w-00078t-Tx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:17:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLf0v-0005vt-Ul for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:17:26 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]:43959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLf0v-0005vl-Lt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:17:25 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:16:30 +0100 References: <20100607150309.GA13369@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20100607150309.GA13369@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006071716.31103.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" > With -netdev, there now seems to be little need to support vlans, > enabling them leads to user confusion and bad performance. > Disable support for vlans by default, add config option to enable. No. If you want to remove vlans, then actually do that. As I've said before if you want a point-point network model then you should implement that (and remove the vlan code, probably replacing with equivalent functionality). We should not have both point-point and broadcast interfaces. Paul