Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/06/2015 12:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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.

I do not understand.  What we're doing is free-beer.  We can always say
no.  What's your worry?

One usecase of this feature is to avoid recompiling QEMU while playing
with firmware.  If you cannot mimic QEMU's behavior (which is to add
"etc/" files), the feature is pointless, or at least I totally cannot
understand its purpose and I'm against merging it.

Paolo