[Qemu-devel] Drop legacy device lists? (was: [PATCH] e1000: add the ability to select among several specific types of e1000 ...)

[Stefan Weil]

Am 25.02.2014 09:01, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Hi,
>
> Am 24.02.2014 20:08, schrieb Romain Dolbeau:
[...]
>> diff --git a/hw/pci/pci.c b/hw/pci/pci.c
>> index 4e0701d..07c8cdd 100644
>> --- a/hw/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/hw/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -1572,6 +1572,9 @@ static const char * const pci_nic_models[] = {
>>      "i82559er",
>>      "rtl8139",
>>      "e1000",
>> +    "82540EM",
>> +    "82544GC",
>> +    "82545EM",
>>      "pcnet",
>>      "virtio",
>>      NULL
>> @@ -1584,6 +1587,9 @@ static const char * const pci_nic_names[] = {
>>      "i82559er",
>>      "rtl8139",
>>      "e1000",
>> +    "82540EM",
>> +    "82544GC",
>> +    "82545EM",
>>      "pcnet",
>>      "virtio-net-pci",
>>      NULL
> I would hope that adding to these two legacy lists is not necessary for
> new types. They should be created using -device, not -net nic,model=.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas

What about removing those lists for QEMU 2.0? We should use the version
update to get rid of some legacy interfaces.

Stefan