Re: [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas Huth
On 22/07/15 18:20, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:40:55PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: ... >> Deprecating -net except for -net nic sounds like a fine step forward to >> me. > > -net dump is also useful, we'll need some solution for that if we > want to deprecate vlans.

Re: [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net

2015-07-22 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:40:55PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Copying Andreas just in case. > > Thomas Huth writes: > > > On 07/17/2015 09:25 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 17 July 2015 at 07:53, Thomas Huth wrote: > >>> Ok, assuming that my "Network traffic dumping for -netdev devices

Re: [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net

2015-07-22 Thread Markus Armbruster
Copying Andreas just in case. Thomas Huth writes: > On 07/17/2015 09:25 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 17 July 2015 at 07:53, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> Ok, assuming that my "Network traffic dumping for -netdev devices" patch >>> series is going to solve the dumping-for-netdev problem, how do we >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net (was: [RFC PATCH] Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too)

2015-07-17 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:53:08AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 05/26/2015 04:29 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > Stefan Hajnoczi writes: > [...] > >> We thought the QEMU "vlan" concept would be dropped completely in the > >> future, so it was never added to -netdev. No patches to do that have

Re: [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net

2015-07-17 Thread Thomas Huth
On 07/17/2015 09:25 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 July 2015 at 07:53, Thomas Huth wrote: >> Ok, assuming that my "Network traffic dumping for -netdev devices" patch >> series is going to solve the dumping-for-netdev problem, how do we >> tackle the remaining problems that we have to solve befor

Re: [Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net (was: [RFC PATCH] Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too)

2015-07-17 Thread Peter Maydell
On 17 July 2015 at 07:53, Thomas Huth wrote: > Ok, assuming that my "Network traffic dumping for -netdev devices" patch > series is going to solve the dumping-for-netdev problem, how do we > tackle the remaining problems that we have to solve before we can > deprecate -net? Does anybody have a sur

[Qemu-devel] net: Next steps to deprecate -net (was: [RFC PATCH] Enable vlans and dump for -netdev, too)

2015-07-16 Thread Thomas Huth
On 05/26/2015 04:29 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Stefan Hajnoczi writes: [...] >> We thought the QEMU "vlan" concept would be dropped completely in the >> future, so it was never added to -netdev. No patches to do that have >> been posted over the years, so I think it was more of a conceptual g