From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MA1za-0006tT-03 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 09:19:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MA1zV-0006sE-8h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 09:19:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55797 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MA1zV-0006s8-5z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 09:19:21 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:56662) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MA1zU-0001PK-R4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 09:19:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1FE05B.30800@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:17:15 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qdev: kill DeviceState->nd, use properties instead. References: <1243550679-9027-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1243550679-9027-2-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <200905291310.09405.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200905291310.09405.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 05/29/09 14:10, Paul Brook wrote: >> kill DeviceState->nd, use properties instead. > > I'm not sure this is the right solution. Before changing this I think we need > to figure out how we want to link devices to the host network configuration. Sure, when we replace the vlans with something else the vlan property wouldn't make sense any more (guess this is the discussion you are referring to). We can drop it once we have a replacement for the current model. Not (yet) having a replacement shouldn't stop us from putting qdev into use though. cheers, Gerd