Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.6] fw_cfg: Adopt /opt/RFQDN convention

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 04/18/2016 10:42 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> FW CFG's primary user is QEMU, which uses it to expose configuration
> information (in the widest sense) to Firmware.  Thus the name FW CFG.
> 
> FW CFG can also be used by others for their own purposes.  QEMU is
> merely acting as transport then.  Names starting with opt/ are reseved

s/reseved/reserved/

> for such uses.  There is no provision, however, to guide safe sharing
> among different such users.
> 
> Fix that, losely following QMP precedence: names should start with

s/losely/loosely/

> opt/RFQDN/, where RFQDN is a reverse fully qualified domain name you
> control.
> 
> Based on a more ambitious patch from Michael Tsirkin.
> 
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---

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