Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] net: add e1000e model to the "simple" -net/-nic options

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/03/2018 18:19, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 02.03.2018 16:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/pci/pci.c | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/pci/pci.c b/hw/pci/pci.c
>> index e006b6ac71..af3c85a46f 100644
>> --- a/hw/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/hw/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -1822,6 +1822,7 @@ static const char * const pci_nic_models[] = {
>>      "i82559er",
>>      "rtl8139",
>>      "e1000",
>> +    "e1000e",
>>      "pcnet",
>>      "virtio",
>>      "sungem",
>> @@ -1835,6 +1836,7 @@ static const char * const pci_nic_names[] = {
>>      "i82559er",
>>      "rtl8139",
>>      "e1000",
>> +    "e1000e",
>>      "pcnet",
>>      "virtio-net-pci",
>>      "sungem",
> 
> I think it would be better and more consisten to finally fix this mess
> and automatically allow all devices in the category
> DEVICE_CATEGORY_NETWORK that are derived from TYPE_PCI_DEVICE, instead
> of manually maintaining this list here...?

Yeah, that would make sense too (virtio would be special cased).  Thanks!

Paolo