From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-config: convert all QemuOpts to use dashes instead of underscores
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:02:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120725160236.3fc3de49@doriath.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9qqYhXcs6VvymPqTPSaHpLVJ15-PsKZERLtwuyOMZVmQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:58:02 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 25 July 2012 19:20, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > The man page is generated from qemu-options.hx which also generates the
> > help output.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we're still stuck in the "everyone yells at Anthony when
> > he tries to change the help output because of libvirt" state.
>
> I think we should simply say "no, parsing -help is broken and wrong and it
> was obviously broken and wrong and we are in fact going to change the
> help output for QEMU 1.2, and you will need a new libvirt that can
> cope with that". We can't be held hostage forever to really bad decisions
> like that.
We have to provide an alternative before doing that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-25 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-25 16:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Allow '-' or '_' for all QemuOpts Anthony Liguori
2012-07-25 16:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-opts: introduce a function to compare option names Anthony Liguori
2012-07-25 16:45 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-25 16:46 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-25 17:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-07-25 16:53 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-25 17:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-07-25 18:31 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-27 7:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-27 11:14 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-25 16:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-config: convert all QemuOpts to use dashes instead of underscores Anthony Liguori
2012-07-25 17:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-07-25 18:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-07-25 18:58 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-25 19:02 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2012-07-25 19:02 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-25 19:09 ` [Qemu-devel] Changing qemu's -help output Luiz Capitulino
2012-07-25 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2012-07-27 7:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-config: convert all QemuOpts to use dashes instead of underscores Markus Armbruster
2012-07-27 11:10 ` Andreas Färber
2012-07-25 17:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Allow '-' or '_' for all QemuOpts Luiz Capitulino
2012-07-27 8:39 ` Markus Armbruster
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