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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net opti
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options |
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Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:51:06 +0100 |
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On 15/12/2015 12:46, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We likely don't want to maintain the legacy -net options forever,
> so let's start informing the users that this option will be
> removed in a future version. However, there are two cases where
> we should not spill out a message yet: First is the "-net nic"
> option which might still be required to configure on-board NICs
> that can not be handled via "-netdev" yet, and second is the
> "-net user" default option that is created automatically when
> no other networking option has been specified.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
> net/net.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
> index ade6051..2593961 100644
> --- a/net/net.c
> +++ b/net/net.c
> @@ -1006,6 +1006,12 @@ static int net_client_init1(const void *object, int
> is_netdev, Error **errp)
> return -1;
> }
>
> + if (opts->type != NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_NIC &&
> + (!default_net || opts->type != NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_USER)) {
> + error_report("Deprecated net option - "
> + "this will be removed in a future version!");
> + }
Honestly, I still do not believe that they will be removed. They are
little more than syntactic sugar at this point.
Paolo
> if (!net_client_init_fun[opts->type]) {
> error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "type",
> "a net backend type (maybe it is not compiled "
>
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Thomas Huth, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Thomas Huth, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Eric Blake, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Thomas Huth, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Thomas Huth, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Thomas Huth, 2015/12/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/12/16
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Inform the user about deprecated -net options, Peter Maydell, 2015/12/15