From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYxtY-0007MP-Qp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:27:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYxtX-0001wm-Lb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:27:28 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1426856744-18750-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> <550C281D.3070300@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:27:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <550C281D.3070300@redhat.com> (Eric Blake's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:01:01 -0600") Message-ID: <87619v2188.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC for-2.3 0/1] block: New command line option --no-format-probing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com Eric Blake writes: > On 03/20/2015 07:05 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> First of all, my apologies for being so late with this. I realized >> part way through the current development cycle that I couldn't do both >> the error work and my half of the block probing work we discussed back >> in November, so I punted the latter to the next cycle, missing the one >> little feature I quite obviously could do. >> >> Why is this "RFC for-2.3"? The patch is simple, and quite obviously >> does nothing unless you run with --no-format-probing. If libvirt >> wants it in 2.3, then I think we should consider it even at this late >> stage. If libvirt doesn't want it, or won't try to make use of it for >> another few months, I'm happy to drop the patch now and revisit the >> larger topic in the next cycle. >> >> I readily admit --no-format-probing is fugly. Better ideas are >> welcome. > > So, is it spelled '--no-format-probing', or is it spelled > '-no-format-probing'? It is in the same category as other flag > parameters like '-enable-fips' or '-no-user-config'. Any QEMU option can be spelled both as -NAME and as --NAME. Rolling your very own command line parser is foolish, but the only way to stay design-flaw-compatible.