From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEGP-00012Q-U9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:52:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEGL-0000xm-8K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:52:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56092 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEGL-0000xh-3Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:52:29 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:36622) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWEGK-0005La-Pz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:52:28 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWEGI-0007mZ-F3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:52:26 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add --accel option Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:52:23 +0100 References: <1248814081-7860-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1248814081-7860-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907291952.23714.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Glauber Costa , aliguori@us.ibm.com On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Glauber Costa wrote: > Since libvirt dudes seem to prefer it, add a --accel option. For now, > it only does the same as --enable-kvm, but it can easily be extended > in the future. It also accepts "none" and "kqemu" options. Having two options do the same thing seems wrong. IMO at least one of them should be deprecated and documented as a backward compatibility alias. Paul