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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.13 0/2] net: Get rid of 'vlan'
 terminology and use 'hub' instead
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To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, "=?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P._Berrang=c3=a9?=" <berrange@redhat.com>

On 04/04/2018 17:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The 'vlan' term caused a lot of confusion in the past, so let's try
> to switch to the better word "hub" everywhere where it is appropriate.
> (Note: The CLI parameter "vlan=xxx" still remains as is to not break the
> compatibility with older versions)
> 
> Thomas Huth (2):
>   net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the source
>     files
>   net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the doc
>     files

Bold proposal: remove 'vlan' property/suboption in 2.13, so that we can
remove the "aka"s altogether.  Yes, it's early, but even though I've
occasionally used vlans I've never used more than one...

Paolo