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 > Cc: Gabriel L. Somlo > Cc: Laszlo Ersek > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster > --- -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org