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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, PReP <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] spapr: add ibmveth to the supported network adapters list
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:22:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5277754B.2090107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738nfxazm.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>

Il 02/11/2013 13:07, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
>> Why do you even need a new category?  Just take everything in the
>> network category and put it in the help.
> 
> You *can't* currently construct -net nic,model=help output from
> registered qdev NICs, because:
> 
> * -net nic generally doesn't accept all qdev NICs, and
> 
> * the model names accepted by -net nic need *not* match the qdev device
>   model names (example: virtio != virtio-net), and

Both could be solved by accepting legacy aliases, plus all non-no_user NICs.

> * -net nic may accept model names that map to a non-qdevified NIC (not
>    sure such NICs still exist).

I think any of those (and also SysBus NICs) would only accept the
default model.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-04 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11  3:09 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] spapr: add ibmveth to the supported network adapters list Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-10-18  5:39 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-10-27 18:03 ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-01 10:52   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-11-01 12:47     ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-02 11:51       ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-02 22:52         ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-02 10:56     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-02 12:07       ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-04 10:22         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-11-02 12:26       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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