From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] inconsistency between device traversal in qdev and legacy
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:19:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEFBD34.1050507@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=BT=mWypNvmoSOPV_W1Pn8T-eEwg@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/08/2011 12:39 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 June 2011 18:37, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
>> From Peter's description I believe this could be the root cause of Rob's
>> reversed -net /dev/ethX devices as well? That supposedly broke with 0.14. So
>> for setups earlier than 0.14 reversing would be a bugfix, but if people
>> adapted to 0.14 behavior changing it back would break things. Difficult
>> call.
>
> OTOH if not many people complained about the 0.13->0.14 transition then
> presumably not very many will complain if we put it back? :-)
>
> -- PMM
I suspect most people emulating boards only feed one interface to the
thing, so it probably doesn't come up much.
Either way, I have a workaround now, but consistency would be nice.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-08 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 15:07 [Qemu-devel] inconsistency between device traversal in qdev and legacy Peter Maydell
2011-06-08 17:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-06-08 17:37 ` Andreas Färber
2011-06-08 17:39 ` Peter Maydell
2011-06-08 18:19 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2011-06-08 19:06 ` Andreas Färber
2011-06-09 13:59 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-06-09 14:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-06-09 14:32 ` Peter Maydell
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