From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KvzvS-0004JT-DV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KvzvR-0004J9-MJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35344 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KvzvR-0004J6-GN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:53 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:48417) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvzvR-00006M-En for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:44:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:44:51 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] sockets: helper functions for qemu. Message-ID: <20081031194451.GD16128@shareable.org> References: <1225457254-1000-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1225457254-1000-3-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <490B424C.7060404@codemonkey.ws> <20081031175023.GM29492@redhat.com> <490B475A.4000902@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490B475A.4000902@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Gerd Hoffmann Anthony Liguori wrote: > >Maybe it would be sufficient to just have it added as a flag to the > >arg in question though, eg -serial tcp:localhost:123,ipv4 rather > >than a global -ipv4 flag > > > > Yes, this would be much nicer. I think having the options as a global > is likely to confuse users. Yes. In those few cases where you need to restrict it, a global option would be wrong too: if you have multiple interfaces, and you need to override the automatic default for some reason, there's a fair chance you don't need that on every interface. -- Jamie