From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzMsB-0006zO-Ev for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:23:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzMs7-0001zL-Eu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:23:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzMs7-0001z4-9m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:23:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:23:02 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20150601121908-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1430320913-20737-1-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu> <1430320913-20737-5-git-send-email-somlo@cmu.edu> <20150531181048.GC5268@redhat.com> <556C046B.9070704@redhat.com> <20150601092645-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <556C1F63.1090605@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <556C1F63.1090605@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, gsomlo@gmail.com, kraxel@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek 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. -- MST