From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36215) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asR3o-0003IP-L8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:31:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asR3k-00044R-Lm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:31:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58652) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asR3k-00044L-HW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:31:00 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1460997729-29541-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> <57152E4A.30907@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:30:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <57152E4A.30907@redhat.com> (Eric Blake's message of "Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:58:18 -0600") Message-ID: <87fuui0zlr.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.6] fw_cfg: Adopt /opt/RFQDN convention List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , Laszlo Ersek , Gerd Hoffmann , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Eric Blake writes: > 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/ Fixed both. Thanks! >> 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 >> ---