Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH] net: Deprecate the old way of using a legacy net via "name" instead of "id"

2018-09-21 Thread Markus Armbruster
Thomas Huth writes: > On 2018-09-20 08:07, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Thomas Huth 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

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH] net: Deprecate the old way of using a legacy net via "name" instead of "id"

2018-09-20 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 9/19/18 10:12 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: > 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 instea

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH] net: Deprecate the old way of using a legacy net via "name" instead of "id"

2018-09-20 Thread Thomas Huth
On 2018-09-20 08:07, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Thomas Huth 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

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH] net: Deprecate the old way of using a legacy net via "name" instead of "id"

2018-09-19 Thread Peter Maydell
On 19 September 2018 at 23:07, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Thomas Huth 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 st

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH] net: Deprecate the old way of using a legacy net via "name" instead of "id"

2018-09-19 Thread Markus Armbruster
Thomas Huth 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". Unfortu