From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Changing qemu's -help output
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:09:00 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120725160900.2151e71b@doriath.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-OZ-ACZdJEwQ+_+HxHOtKPCv7V58erK603agqrbxkfVg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:02:53 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 25 July 2012 20:02, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:58:02 +0100
> > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Try whatever it is you wanted to try, see if it barfs. Or don't use it.
Libvirt folks can answer if this is feasible (CC'ing them), I'd guess it's not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-25 19:08 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
2012-07-25 19:02 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-25 19:09 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2012-07-25 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Changing qemu's -help output 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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