From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:46:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493E92DA.2030209@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209153727.GT15102@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Gildas wrote:
>
>> --
>> This patch renames occurences of vlan/VLAN that are not related to IEE
>> 802.1q vlans to vnet/VNET respectively.
>>
>> Usage of vlan= in the -net options is still allowed but will produce
>> an error message on stderr indicating that the option is now
>> deprecated and will be removed in the future.
>>
>
> This bit will just piss people off. By all means change t to allow
> the net vnet= option, but printing out a warning for vlan= on every
> boot is just going to annoy people and they cannot simply change
> their scripts because they may well need to run with old QEMU and
> new QEMU
>
Introducing an alias for something as core as vlan support is not all
that useful. We're never going to implement the vlan option.
All of the internal references are for vlan too.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 15:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated Gildas
2008-12-09 15:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 17:20 ` Kristoffer Ericson
2008-12-09 16:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 16:51 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-09 17:14 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-09 15:37 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-09 15:46 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-12-09 15:58 ` Gildas
2008-12-09 16:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 16:30 ` Gildas
2008-12-09 21:36 ` Luca Bigliardi
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