Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] net: Deprecate the "name" parameter of -net

In early times, network backends were specified by a "vlan" and "name" tuple. With the introduction of netdevs, the "name" was replaced by an "id" (which is supposed to be unique), but the "name" parameter stayed as an alias which could be used instead of "id". Unfortunately, we miss the duplication check for "name": $ qemu-system-x86_64 -net user,name=n1 -net user,name=n1 ... starts without an error, while "id" correctly complains: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -net user,id=n1 -net user,id=n1 qemu-system-x86_64: -net user,id=n1: Duplicate ID 'n1' for net Instead of trying to fix the code for the legacy "name" parameter, let's rather get rid of this old interface and deprecate the "name" parameter now - this will also be less confusing for the users in the long run. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt;

--- net/net.c | 4 ++++ qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c index 2a31339..cdcd5cf 100644 --- a/net/net.c +++ b/net/net.c @@ -984,6 +984,10 @@ static int net_client_init1(const void *object, bool is_netdev, Error **errp) /* missing optional values have been initialized to "all bits zero" */ name = net->has_id ? net->id : net->name; + if (net->has_name) { + warn_report("The 'name' parameter is deprecated, use 'id' instead"); + } + /* Map the old options to the new flat type */ switch (opts->type) { case NET_LEGACY_OPTIONS_TYPE_NONE: diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 8a2e399..60fd7f7 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ The 'file' driver for drives is no longer appropriate for character or host devices and will only accept regular files (S_IFREG). The correct driver for these file types is 'host_cdrom' or 'host_device' as appropriate. +@subsection -net ...,name=@var{name} (since 3.1) + +The @option{name} parameter of the @option{-net} option is a synonym +for the @option{id} parameter, which should now be used instead. + @section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands @subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)