From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unable to parse -device drivers containing commas?
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 08:56:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A85798.9000000@ilande.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A7410F.6090700@redhat.com>
On 30/05/13 13:07, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Is there a way of escaping the
>> commas on the command line so that it is possible to list properties for
>> drivers named in this way?
>
> Commas are escaped by doubling them. Try ./qemu-system-sparc -device
> SUNW,,tcx,help
>
> That's the generic quoting we've used for escaping commas in all new
> command line options, although there may be some older options that
> still need to be taught to honor that escaping.
Hi Eric,
Yes that works absolutely fine here - thanks for the pointer!
Many thanks,
Mark.
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2013-05-30 10:00 [Qemu-devel] Unable to parse -device drivers containing commas? Mark Cave-Ayland
2013-05-30 12:07 ` Eric Blake
2013-05-31 7:56 ` Mark Cave-Ayland [this message]
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