Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] spapr: add ibmveth to the supported network adapters list

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 02/11/2013 13:07, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
>> Why do you even need a new category?  Just take everything in the
>> network category and put it in the help.
> 
> You *can't* currently construct -net nic,model=help output from
> registered qdev NICs, because:
> 
> * -net nic generally doesn't accept all qdev NICs, and
> 
> * the model names accepted by -net nic need *not* match the qdev device
>   model names (example: virtio != virtio-net), and

Both could be solved by accepting legacy aliases, plus all non-no_user NICs.

> * -net nic may accept model names that map to a non-qdevified NIC (not
>    sure such NICs still exist).

I think any of those (and also SysBus NICs) would only accept the
default model.

Paolo