Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking

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Il 25/05/2012 15:07, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:59:25 +0200
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> 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...  we removed kqemu and didn't give an
alternative.  This time we are providing an alternative.

Paolo
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