Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.13 0/2] net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead

[Thomas Huth]

On 04.04.2018 17:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/04/2018 17:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The 'vlan' term caused a lot of confusion in the past, so let's try
>> to switch to the better word "hub" everywhere where it is appropriate.
>> (Note: The CLI parameter "vlan=xxx" still remains as is to not break the
>> compatibility with older versions)
>>
>> Thomas Huth (2):
>>   net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the source
>>     files
>>   net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the doc
>>     files
> 
> Bold proposal: remove 'vlan' property/suboption in 2.13, so that we can
> remove the "aka"s altogether.  Yes, it's early, but even though I've
> occasionally used vlans I've never used more than one...

Fine for me, too - if we all feel confident enough already for that. The
"vlan=..." parameter of "-net" has been declared as deprecated since
QEMU v2.9, so unless somebody sees an urgent need to still keep it, I
can add another patch to this series to remove it ("-net" will then only
work with the default hub #0).

 Thomas