Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tap: Use numbered tap/tun devices on all *BSD OS's

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:12:20AM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> On 05/08/13 7:57 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 10:20:41PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> >>The following patch simplifies the *BSD tap/tun code and makes use of 
> >>numbered
> >>tap/tun interfaces on all *BSD OS's. NetBSD has a patch in their pkgsrc tree
> >>to make use of this feature and DragonFly also supports this as well.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <address@hidden>
> >
> >I confirmed that the NetBSD tun driver does use /dev/tap%d by default.
> >There are not other CONFIG_BSD=y targets listed in ./configure besides
> >FreeBSD/kFreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin.  Therefore this patch is safe.
> >
> >Thanks, applied to my net-next tree:
> >https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/net-next
> 
> And when will this be merged to master?

qemu.git/master will open up on or after 2013-08-15.  I will send a pull
request then.  This is part of the release cycle:

http://qemu-project.org/Planning/1.6

QEMU is currently in hard freeze:

"After the hard feature freeze, the master branch in git is no longer
open for general development. Only bug fixes will be accepted until the
next release."
http://qemu-project.org/Planning/HardFeatureFreeze

Stefan