From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael Roth" <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.a@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@amazon.com,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] machine: replace underscores in machine's property names
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:00:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C80114.7080302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140717164731.23073.74542@loki>
Il 17/07/2014 18:47, Michael Roth ha scritto:
>> > My argument for getting this into 2.1 had been to avoid tools picking up
>> > these to-be-renamed property names from the start. At this point, I'm
>> > not so sure whether it's worse to break management tools or potentially
>> > some rarely used/tested option - if we decide for 2.2, is backporting to
>> > 2.1.1 an option if we document it in the release notes?
> IMO, if there's some risk to breaking management or other tools, I'd
> rather it be left to major releases. And if these values are already misnamed
> for 2.1.0 and prior, I don't think we stop it from poliferating much more by
> pushing the fix up by a few months.
I'm not sure in which case management could break (except for qom-get).
Andreas, can you explain?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-17 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-29 9:09 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] machine: replace underscores in machine's property names Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-06-29 11:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-07-17 14:15 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-07-17 14:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-17 15:48 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-17 16:47 ` Michael Roth
2014-07-17 17:00 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-07-18 14:15 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-18 14:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-18 16:06 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-07-17 16:55 ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-17 16:59 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-07-18 14:25 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-18 14:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-18 15:59 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-07-18 16:10 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-18 16:23 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-07-18 16:32 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-18 16:35 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2014-07-18 20:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
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