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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qem
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:23:02 +0200 |
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 01/06/2015 09:28, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > I don't feel overly strongly about it; just "mechanism, not policy"
> > > looks like a good tradition (well, good excuse anyway).
> >
> > Most users never see warnings. We ship it, we support it.
> > If we don't want to support it, let's not ship it.
>
> Then we should rm -rf half of QEMU. :)
>
> Seriously, I agree wholeheartedly with not baking policy into QEMU. A
> lot of QEMU command-line hacking really is just a shortcut to avoid
> continuous recompilation. I don't think it's reasonable to expect that
> it constitutes a stable API.
>
> Paolo
Still, reserving part of the namespace for QEMU internal use
is *not* policy, it's just good engineering.
How about we forbid adding files under "etc/" ?
That would be enough to avoid conflicts.
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Gabriel L. Somlo, 2015/06/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline, Markus Armbruster, 2015/06/01