Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-doc: Rework the network options chapter to make "-net" less prominent

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 2018年03月28日 14:03, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 28.03.2018 04:59, Jason Wang wrote:
>>
>> On 2018年03月27日 21:16, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>>>     # launch vde switch
>>>>>     vde_switch -F -sock /tmp/myswitch
>>>>>     # launch QEMU instance
>>>>> -qemu-system-i386 linux.img -net nic -net vde,sock=/tmp/myswitch
>>>>> +qemu-system-i386 linux.img -nic vde,sock=/tmp/myswitch
>>>> I think we should use -netdev here?
>>> I've had that in the original version of this patch, but Paolo suggested
>>> to use -nic instead since this is more "user-friendly":
>>>
>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg05258.html
>>>
>>> I personally don't mind whether we use "-netdev" or "-nic" in the
>>> examples, as long as we finally get rid of "-net" there...
>> Right.
>>
>>> Please let me
>>> know which way you prefer, so I can respin the patch again if necessary.
>>>
>>>    Thomas
>>>
>> But I think we should be consistent: in your patch some "-net" was
>> replaced by "-nic", but others were replaced by "-netdev".
> These are *examples*, and I think it's good to give the users examples
> for both ways of specifying a network connection. I'd really like to
> avoid that people think that -nic is the only way of specifying such a
> device, since you might not be able to configure all properties of the
> NIC this way. On the other hand, -device + -netdev is really way more to
> type, so we should also not only show this kind of examples. Thus a
> mixture between both ways sounds like the right solution to me. But if
> you disagree, let me know, then I can rework the patch again to either
> only use -nic or only use -netdev in the examples.
>
>   Thomas

Ok. I get your point.

I will apply v3 as is.

Thanks