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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/7] bootindex: add
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> > I think it is ok to allow only *changing* the bootindex.
> > 
> Yes, that's no problem.

But then yoy always  will have a old entry where you can take the suffix
from, and you don't need the suffix as parameter for the monitor
command.

cheers,
  Gerd