Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] net: add missing "netmap" to host_net_devices[]

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:39:17PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2015 17:16:48 +0100
> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Although hmp-commands.hx lists "netmap" as a valid host_net_add type,
> > the command rejects it because it's missing from the list.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  net/net.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
> > index db6be12..c5349d2 100644
> > --- a/net/net.c
> > +++ b/net/net.c
> > @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ const char *host_net_devices[] = {
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_NET_BRIDGE
> >      "bridge",
> >  #endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NETMAP
> > +    "netmap",
> > +#endif
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SLIRP
> >      "user",
> >  #endif
> 
> Did you consider to remove it from the help text in hmp-commands.hx
> instead?
> That would force the users to use "netdev_add" for this instead - one
> more reason to get away from the legacy "net" syntax ;-)

There's no reason to artifically limit the command and the intention of
the documentation was clear.

Stefan

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