On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 8:23 PM Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > > > Please excuse the attention-grabbing subject. > > Again. > > [...] > > So, to make use of QEMU's netmap backend (CONFIG_NETMAP), you have to > > build and install netmap software from sources. Which pretty much > > CONFIG_VDE seems to be similarly cumbersome to build-test. > > > ensures nobody uses it. It was added in commit 58952137b0b (Nov 2013). > [...] > > The vde backend was added in commit 8a16d273887 (Jul 2008). The commit > message blames it on Luca Bigliardi. Julia (cc'ed) fixed a bug in 2018.
This was a bugzilla entry dated 2010 from the BiteSizedTasks list. You can definitely ignore this commit when deciding whether to keep vde backend. Best regards, Julia Suvorova.
