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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without opt/
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:25:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458051901.13231.78.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E818BD.2080906@redhat.com>

On Di, 2016-03-15 at 15:14 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> On 15/03/2016 14:55, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Allowing arbitary file names on command line is setting us up for
> > failure: future guests will look for a specific QEMU-specified name and
> > will get confused finding a user file there.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> Too bad for the user.
> 
> I think we have already gone through this discussion.

Indeed, we discussed that before.

If users ignore the warning it's their fault.

Being able to set entries outside opt/ can be useful for debugging and
development purposes, this is the reason it is a warning only and not a
hard error.

cheers,
  Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 13:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without opt/ Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-15 14:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-15 14:25   ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2016-03-15 14:27     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-15 14:25   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-15 14:46     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-15 14:54       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-15 15:03         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-15 15:05           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-15 14:54     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-15 14:58       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-17  1:31         ` Corey Minyard

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