2014-02-25 9:58 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org>:
> 2014-02-25 9:01 GMT+01:00 Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>:
>
> > @@ -1572,6 +1572,9 @@ static const char * const pci_nic_models[] = {
>> > @@ -1584,6 +1587,9 @@ static const char * const pci_nic_names[] = {
>>
>> I would hope that adding to these two legacy lists is not necessary for
>> new types. They should be created using -device, not -net nic,model=.
>>
>
> Again I don't understand - I took inspiration from eepro100.c, and it has
> 3 devices in there
> (i82551, i82557b, i82559er). And the model is handled by -device, as my
> example
> shows:
> #####
> "-netdev user,id=mynet0 -device 82545EM,netdev=mynet0"
> #####
>
> I was misled by the presence of "e1000" and several eepro100 variants in
this list.
Modifying it is not necessary, it works fine without it. I suppose that's
what you
meant - that it works both ways (-device or -net nic), but the second
option is not
required for new device as it's a deprecated way of doing things?
Cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
