[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] QemuOpts: framework for storing and parsing options.

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> This stores device parameters in a better way than unparsed strings.
> 
> New types:
>   QemuOpt       -  one key-value pair.
>   QemuOpts      -  group of key-value pairs, belonging to one
>                    device, i.e. one drive.
>   QemuOptsList  -  list of some kind of devices, i.e. all drives.
> 
> Functions are provided to work with these types.  The plan is that some
> day we will pass around QemuOpts pointers instead of strings filled with
> "key1=value1,key2=value2".

Will this also be able to handle the "-net <type>[,options=...]" special
case? Then it would be really great and could save us a lot of ugly code.

Jan

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