From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXuFe-0002m0-Pd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:08:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXu7E-00054N-SR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:00:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXu7E-00054A-IN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 08:59:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBF822D.9090707@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:59:25 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1337882362-20100-1-git-send-email-zwu.kernel@gmail.com> <20120524175321.31254444@doriath.home> <20120525100753.GD30110@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> <20120525095313.116f680f@doriath.home> In-Reply-To: <20120525095313.116f680f@doriath.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , zwu.kernel@gmail.com, wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com Il 25/05/2012 14:53, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto: >> > I agree it would be nice to drop entirely but I don't feel happy doing >> > that to users who might have QEMU buried in scripts somewhere. One >> > day they upgrade packages and suddenly their stuff doesn't work >> > anymore. > This is very similar to kqemu and I don't think we regret having dropped it. It's not. kqemu was putting maintainance burden, the aim of this patch is exactly to isolate the feature to command-line parsing and a magic net client. If you don't use -net, the new code is absolutely dead, unlike kqemu. Paolo