From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Su6qT-000444-B4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:02:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Su6qQ-0006Gp-0f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:02:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Su6qP-0006Ge-Pg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:02:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:02:36 -0300 From: Luiz Capitulino Message-ID: <20120725160236.3fc3de49@doriath.home> In-Reply-To: References: <1343233543-18561-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <1343233543-18561-3-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <20120725143258.52402998@doriath.home> <87vchbzorp.fsf@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-config: convert all QemuOpts to use dashes instead of underscores List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Anthony Liguori , Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:58:02 +0100 Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 July 2012 19:20, Anthony Liguori 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.