From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA4XE-0002zw-6F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:30:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA4XC-0002zX-PD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:30:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57791 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LA4XC-0002zU-H5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:30:02 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com ([209.85.221.20]:56295) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LA4XC-0006ja-Mj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:30:02 -0500 Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so39849qyk.10 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:29:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <493E8EED.6050308@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:29:49 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. > I don't think this is a good idea. vlan has been the option name for a long time and changing it now will lead to quite a lot of confusion. I agree that it's not perhaps the best name but it's too late now to change it. Documentation improvement is always welcome though. If you think the default help output or man pages can be clarified to make this more clear, that's certainly a reasonable thing to do. Regards, Anthony Liguori