Re: [Qemu-devel] inconsistency between device traversal in qdev and legacy

[Rob Landley]

On 06/08/2011 12:39 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 June 2011 18:37, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From Peter's description I believe this could be the root cause of Rob's
>> reversed -net /dev/ethX devices as well? That supposedly broke with 0.14. So
>> for setups earlier than 0.14 reversing would be a bugfix, but if people
>> adapted to 0.14 behavior changing it back would break things. Difficult
>> call.
> 
> OTOH if not many people complained about the 0.13->0.14 transition then
> presumably not very many will complain if we put it back? :-)
> 
> -- PMM

I suspect most people emulating boards only feed one interface to the
thing, so it probably doesn't come up much.

Either way, I have a workaround now, but consistency would be nice.

Rob