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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking
From: |
Luiz Capitulino |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking |
Date: |
Fri, 25 May 2012 10:18:30 -0300 |
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:14:39 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 25/05/2012 15:07, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:59:25 +0200
> > Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Il 25/05/2012 14:53, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> >>>>> I agree it would be nice to drop entirely but I don't feel happy doing
> >>>>> that to users who might have QEMU buried in scripts somewhere. One
> >>>>> day they upgrade packages and suddenly their stuff doesn't work
> >>>>> anymore.
> >>> This is very similar to kqemu and I don't think we regret having dropped
> >>> it.
> >>
> >> It's not. kqemu was putting maintainance burden, the aim of this patch
> >> is exactly to isolate the feature to command-line parsing and a magic
> >> net client. If you don't use -net, the new code is absolutely dead,
> >> unlike kqemu.
> >
> > Let me quote Stefan on this thread:
> >
> > """
> > The point of this patch series is to remove the special-case net.c code
> > for the legacy "vlan" feature. Today's code makes it harder to
> > implement a clean QOM model and is a burden for the net subsystem in
> > general
> > """
>
> Still not sure what you mean...
I meant it's a similar case. kqemu was a special case and maintenance burden.
We've dropped it and didn't regret. What's stopping us from doing the same
thing with vlans?
> we removed kqemu and didn't give an
> alternative. This time we are providing an alternative.
Alternatives already exist, we don't have to provide them.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Markus Armbruster, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Markus Armbruster, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking,
Luiz Capitulino <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking, Markus Armbruster, 2012/05/29