From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:16:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5ED3E1.8000806@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com>
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> We would still have to deal with the fact that so far '\' had no special
>> meaning on Windows - except that is was the well-known path separator.
>> So redefining its meaning would break a bit...
>>
>
> That's the problem. You will break existing Windows users.
>
> I know this goes against the current momentum in qemu, but overloading
> one option with a bunch of parameters seems absolutely silly to me.
It's surely not perfect in every detail. On the other hand, it's fairly
compact, concentrating device attributes in one place.
Jan
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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:16:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5ED3E1.8000806@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com>
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> We would still have to deal with the fact that so far '\' had no special
>> meaning on Windows - except that is was the well-known path separator.
>> So redefining its meaning would break a bit...
>>
>
> That's the problem. You will break existing Windows users.
>
> I know this goes against the current momentum in qemu, but overloading
> one option with a bunch of parameters seems absolutely silly to me.
It's surely not perfect in every detail. On the other hand, it's fairly
compact, concentrating device attributes in one place.
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 16:58 [PATCH] support colon in filenames Ram Pai
2009-06-24 17:08 ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-24 17:30 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-24 18:31 ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-24 17:26 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:27 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:57 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-24 17:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-06-25 9:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-25 9:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-25 17:52 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-25 17:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 6:53 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 6:38 ` rev1 " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 6:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 7:45 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 7:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-27 0:41 ` rev2 " Ram Pai
2009-06-27 0:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 5:08 ` [PATCH] rev3: " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 5:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 8:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-02 12:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-02 13:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-08 8:30 ` [PATCH] rev4: " Ram Pai
2009-07-08 8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-08 15:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-08 15:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-10 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-10 13:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 7:51 ` [PATCH] rev5: " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 7:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 9:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 9:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 17:03 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 18:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 18:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 18:44 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 18:44 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 21:04 ` qcow2 relative paths (was: [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames) Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:14 ` qcow2 relative paths Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 2:28 ` qcow2 relative paths (was: [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames) Ram Pai
2009-07-16 2:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:38 ` qcow2 relative paths Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:51 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` [PATCH] rev6: support colon in filenames Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-17 23:17 ` [PATCH] rev7: " Ram Pai
2009-07-17 23:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-21 12:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-21 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-08-06 6:27 ` Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:47 ` [PATCH] rev8: " Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 15:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: " Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:04 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:29 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:29 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 16:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 16:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-15 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-16 10:57 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-16 10:57 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-16 13:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-07-16 13:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-07-16 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 15:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 15:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 15:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:52 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 15:52 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 16:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 16:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 16:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 16:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-16 7:39 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 18:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: " Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 20:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 22:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-16 0:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 0:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 7:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 7:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 7:16 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2009-07-16 7:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 8:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 23:53 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-16 23:53 ` Paul Brook
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