Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 05:16:30PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > With -netdev, there now seems to be little need to support vlans,
> > enabling them leads to user confusion and bad performance.
> > Disable support for vlans by default, add config option to enable.
> 
> No. If you want to remove vlans, then actually do that.

How is this not what this patch does? You mean kill the code
completely, not just --contigure option?

> As I've said before if you want a point-point network model then you should 
> implement that (and remove the vlan code, probably replacing with equivalent 
> functionality). We should not have both point-point and broadcast interfaces.
> 
> Paul


This is what netdev does: replaces vlan. What is left is remove vlan.

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