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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: sw@weilnetz.de, aliguori@us.ibm.com,
	Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	rmarwah@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change "-net tap, helper" to "-net tap, bridgehelper"
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:42:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202082342.57354.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328577371-19939-1-git-send-email-coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> The purpose of the "helper" option for "-net tap" isn't obvious
> based on its name.  This patch changes the option name to
> "bridgehelper" to make its purpose more self-documenting.
> 
> With this patch, a typical invocation will be similar to one of the
> following (where the default bridge is br0):

I don't see why this option is specific to bridging.  Surely it could be used 
in any system where you want to have a helper script open the tap device.

Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-08 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07  1:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change "-net tap, helper" to "-net tap, bridgehelper" Corey Bryant
2012-02-08 23:42 ` Paul Brook [this message]

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