From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2ORs-0003Iy-Md for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:31:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2ORk-0006Fi-Ep for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:31:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2ORk-0006Fb-7A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:31:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:32:37 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20130725163237.GA7283@redhat.com> References: <87li4v8ktz.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87ehan8hhn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87ppu66a73.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <20130725145215.GA3758@redhat.com> <51F13C85.8050108@suse.de> <20130725152427.GH3758@redhat.com> <87iozybonc.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost acceleration broken? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Rusty Russell , Stefan Hajnoczi , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:20:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 July 2013 17:16, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Or something vaguely understandable by a human? > > I think this is actually one of the main issues with trying > to get rid of the 'legacy' command line options. They > may be a random mishmash of things, but they're also > often much easier to understand, remember and type than > the new-style options that are supposed to replace them :-( > > -- PMM The new-style ones are not really harder to understand, but they are mostly undocumented. I think that's the real issue. I think recent patchset to at least classify -device help output by Marcel is a step in the right direction here. -- MST