From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA4nI-0008Vc-KH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:46:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA4nH-0008Uz-BY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:46:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53568 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LA4nH-0008Ut-22 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:46:39 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com ([209.85.221.20]:59347) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LA4nH-0000NS-8x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:46:39 -0500 Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so75655qyk.10 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:46:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <493E92DA.2030209@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:46:34 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated References: <20081209153727.GT15102@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20081209153727.GT15102@redhat.com> 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: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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