Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In early times, network backends were specified by a "vlan" and "name" > tuple. With the introduction of netdevs, the "name" was replaced by an > "id" (which is supposed to be unique), but the "name" parameter stayed > as an alias which could be used instead of "id". Unfortunately, we miss > the duplication check for "name": > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -net user,name=n1 -net user,name=n1 > > ... starts without an error, while "id" correctly complains: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -net user,id=n1 -net user,id=n1 > qemu-system-x86_64: -net user,id=n1: Duplicate ID 'n1' for net > > Instead of trying to fix the code for the legacy "name" parameter, let's Has been that way for a long time without anyone complaining, so leaving it that way for a little longer is okay. > rather get rid of this old interface and deprecate the "name" parameter > now - this will also be less confusing for the users in the long run. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
