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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] qdev: add "net-client" property
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To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
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On 11/12/09 21:28, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Rather than having each NIC create it's own client, let's create the
> client early and pass it down to the NIC.

'-device $nic,net-client=$name' doesn't work ...

> One advantage is that we can add parameters which only the client
> knows about, without having the NIC know anything about it - e.g. NICs
> shouldn't know about netdev vs. vlan.

What this is needed for?

> Another advantage is that we can easily get the client associated with
> a qdev.

Looks like this is the *real* reason ...

cheers,
   Gerd