Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated

[Kristoffer Ericson]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:29:49 -0600
Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gildas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As I agree with the thread "vlan option is misleading, what about vnet
> > ?" and I found sending a patch would be more constructive than a "+1",
> > here it is.
> >   
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea.  vlan has been the option name for a 
> long time and changing it now will lead to quite a lot of confusion.  I 
> agree that it's not perhaps the best name but it's too late now to 
> change it.

I understand your point but keeping something that
"everyone" agrees is misleading (myself included) just
because it's been used in the past is silly.

> 
> Documentation improvement is always welcome though.  If you think the 
> default help output or man pages can be clarified to make this more 
> clear, that's certainly a reasonable thing to do.
> 

Or atleast accept vnet as an argument to make the transition
somewhere in the future.


> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
> 
> 


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Kristoffer Ericson <address@hidden>

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