Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] network: Added option to disable NIC option roms

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:56:20PM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com> wrote:
> >>Option ROM for network interface cards (NICs) can now explicitly disabled
> >>with romfile=disabled parameter. With hotplugable NICs (currently NE2000,
> >>PCNET)
> >>romfile=(empty) didn't work. This patch disables Option ROMs for iPXE for
> >>alls
> >>supported NICs (hotplugable and non hotplugable).
> >>
> >>Examples with 2 NICs with disabled Option ROM (separated on different lines
> >>for readability):
> >>-device rtl8139,mac=1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7c,vlan=0,romfile=disabled
> >>-net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no,vlan=0
> >>-device pcnet,mac=1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7e,vlan=1,romfile=disabled
> >>-net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no,vlan=1
> >
> >Did you consider "no" or "none"?  Those are already used by -net
> >script=no and -vga none.  I'm afraid we don't have much consistency in
> >the command-line and adding more variants of basically the same
> >concept should be avoided when possible.
> 
> Whether the option is spelled "disabled", "no", "none" or all of
> them above: I don't care about that, just the group of maintainers
> should decide (I would prefer all of them ...).
> 
> The only thing: just help me with git and doing another commit and
> preparing V2 patch then ...
> 
> # I did:
> git stash save mypatch
> git branch -b mybranch lastcommit
> # can be optimized with -b option ...
> git checkout mybranch
> git stash pop
> git merge --squash master
> git commit -a -F - <<EOF
> commit message
> EOF
> # Signoff must be added
> git format-patch -s master
> git checkout master
> # Send mail

Okay, you commited your patch onto the 'mypatch' branch.

$ git checkout mypatch  # go back to your branch
$ $EDITOR               # make changes to the code
$ git commit --amend -a # modify the last commit
$ git format-patch -s HEAD^ # generate new patch

Stefan