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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/virtio-user: support changing tap
	interface name
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:21:40 +0800
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:09:09PM +0000, Wenfeng Liu wrote:
> This patch adds a new option 'iface' to change the interface name of
> tap device with vhost-kernel as backend.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenfeng Liu <liuwf@arraynetworks.com.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>


This option applies only to vhost-kernel backend, you may need do a
sanity check and raise an exception if it's given for vhost-user
backend.

	--yliu