Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb/vmstate: add parent dev path

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 04:12:12PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 22.03.2012 15:37, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> >>> +            .driver   = "USB",
> >>> +            .property = "full-path",
> >>> +            .value    = "no",
> >>
> >> This touches on our "favorite" bit/bool topic again. While I agree that
> >> "no" makes sense for a property of that name, the current code still
> >> expects "on" and "off". In particular, "yes" would not work as expected.
> > 
> > "no" *does* work as expected though, at least it survived my tests,
> > thats why I didn't notice.
> > 
> > I can s/no/off/ for consistency, no problem.  Merging your yes/no patch
> > is fine with me too.
> 
> I stand corrected: Michael Roth's conversion of qdev properties to use
> visitors implicitly changed the parsing logic to cover yes/no and
> true/false as well. That's great news!

I believe Paolo did that conversion, but agreed :)

> 
> So no change of .value is needed here. The only thing to note is that
> print_bit() will output the value as on/off.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion,
> 
> Andreas
> 
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