Re: [Qemu-devel] inconsistency between device traversal in qdev and legacy

[Andreas Färber]

Am 08.06.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Peter Maydell:

> On 8 June 2011 18:37, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From Peter's description I believe this could be the root cause of  
> > Rob's
> > reversed -net /dev/ethX devices as well? That supposedly broke with  
> > 0.14. So
> > for setups earlier than 0.14 reversing would be a bugfix, but if  
> > people
> > adapted to 0.14 behavior changing it back would break things.  
> > Difficult
> > call.
>
> OTOH if not many people complained about the 0.13->0.14 transition  
> then
> presumably not very many will complain if we put it back? :-)

Well, I'm all in favor of a consistent, logical FIFO order. I see no  
strong reason for O(1) there. :)

Andreas