From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
"Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.13 1/3] net: Remove the deprecated "vlan" parameter
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:48:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc89e971-06fd-6bf4-6a68-73a4ffa26b0d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <275bfe53-7c94-0ad0-b388-d8a44a7fb76f@redhat.com>
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On 17/04/2018 10:08, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> - "-net nic[,vlan=n][,netdev=nd][,macaddr=mac][,model=type][,name=str][,addr=str][,vectors=v]\n"
>>> + "-net nic[,macaddr=mac][,model=type][,name=str][,addr=str][,vectors=v]\n"
>>> " configure or create an on-board (or machine default) NIC and\n"
>>> - " connect it either to VLAN 'n' or the netdev 'nd' (for pluggable\n"
>>> - " NICs please use '-device devtype,netdev=nd' instead)\n"
>>> + " connect it to hub 0 (please use -nic for direct connections)\n"
>> What does "direct connections" means?
> I mean a 1:1 connection between the backend and frontend here, without a
> hub inbetween. Can you think of a better wording?
"use -nic unless you need a hub"?
Paolo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-17 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-16 6:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.13 0/3] net: Get rid of 'vlan' Thomas Huth
2018-04-16 6:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.13 1/3] net: Remove the deprecated "vlan" parameter Thomas Huth
2018-04-17 7:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-04-17 8:08 ` Thomas Huth
2018-04-17 9:48 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-04-16 6:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.13 2/3] net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the source files Thomas Huth
2018-04-17 7:22 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-04-16 6:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.13 3/3] net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the doc files Thomas Huth
2018-04-17 7:25 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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