From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] qemu-option: clean up id vs. list->merge_lists
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:54:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8k5wn98.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e69d4246-8075-8a4e-2709-c3473fe68040@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:39:13 +0100")
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> On 10/11/20 09:29, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> As we will see below, there are exceptions where we reject
>> options that used to work. Do we want that?
>
> I think that, as long as we gain in consistency, we do. The special
> casing of "id" is a wart of the current parser and the less it shows
> that "id" is treated specially, the best.
>
> Deprecating or downright rejecting working combinations is always
> walking a fine line, but here we're almost in https://xkcd.com/1172/
> territory.
I find it hard to disagree ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-10 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-09 13:39 [PATCH v2 for-5.2 0/6] Deprecate or forbid crazy QemuOpts cases Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 13:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] qemu-option: simplify search for end of key Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 14:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 13:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] qemu-option: pass QemuOptsList to opts_accepts_any Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 15:27 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 13:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] qemu-option: restrict qemu_opts_set to merge-lists QemuOpts Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 15:55 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 16:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 18:52 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 18:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 13:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] qemu-option: clean up id vs. list->merge_lists Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 16:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 17:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 18:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 18:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-10 8:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-10 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-10 9:54 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2020-11-09 13:39 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] qemu-option: move help handling to get_opt_name_value Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 19:40 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 19:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 13:39 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-09 21:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 21:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-10 8:32 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-09 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 for-5.2 0/6] Deprecate or forbid crazy QemuOpts cases no-reply
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