From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdHIi-0008VR-66 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 05:22:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdHIc-00038x-6x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 05:22:28 -0500 Message-ID: <5277754B.2090107@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:22:03 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1381460995-11855-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <67B9EE56-26C9-4AE0-8C9E-B08628A8C531@suse.de> <527387F4.4090407@ozlabs.ru> <5274DA63.8090903@redhat.com> <8738nfxazm.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <8738nfxazm.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] spapr: add ibmveth to the supported network adapters list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy , PReP , Alexander Graf , Anthony Liguori , QEMU Developers 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