From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] net: Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too,
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:25:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5564BA91.60708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150526150714.24b2cf8f@thh440s>
On 26/05/2015 15:07, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Certainly no objections from my side to keep this "vlan" concept in
> QEMU, but thinking about this option again, I'd rather call it "hub=xx"
> for the -netdev option instead of "vlan=xx", since this better matches
> the "-netdev hubport" naming and it IMHO also describes the
> functionality in a better way.
> (of course I also need to add proper updates to the documentation files
> in my patch in that way)
I agree. It makes sense, because vlans have other uses besides dump
(e.g. connecting VMs via the socket or l2tpv3 backends, where VMs have
multiple NICs).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-26 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-22 19:22 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] net: Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too, Thomas Huth
2015-05-22 19:42 ` Eric Blake
2015-05-26 12:52 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-05-26 13:07 ` Thomas Huth
2015-05-26 18:25 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-05-26 14:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-05-26 14:36 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-05-26 16:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-05-26 18:15 ` Thomas Huth
2015-05-27 7:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-07-17 6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net (was: [RFC PATCH] Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too) Thomas Huth
2015-07-17 7:25 ` Peter Maydell
2015-07-17 7:48 ` [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net Thomas Huth
2015-07-22 13:40 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-07-22 16:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-22 16:45 ` Thomas Huth
2015-07-17 8:16 ` [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net (was: [RFC PATCH] Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too) Stefan Hajnoczi
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