From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: agraf@suse.de, weidong.huang@huawei.com, aliguori@amazon.com,
peter.huangpeng@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
arei.gonglei@huawei.com, stefanha@redhat.com,
lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:45:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140915174503.GB13548@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54170C7F.8080409@redhat.com>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:57:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 15/09/2014 16:44, arei.gonglei@huawei.com ha scritto:
> > From: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
> >
> > At present, people have no way to know they should
> > have a specific format for alias properties.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > before output:
> >
> > virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=uint16
> > virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=uint16
> > virtio-blk-pci.drive=str
> >
> > after output applied this patch series:
> >
> > virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=blocksize
> > virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=blocksize
> > virtio-blk-pci.drive=drive
>
> Is there actually anyone that is relying on the legacy_names of
> properties? I would be inclined to drop them altogether...
>
> Paolo
What makes these legacy?
How do you expect users to find out about the properties?
>qemu -device virtio-blk-pci.?
is not the correct way anymore?
How the time flies, it seems only yesterday this was the
new way, -help was the old one ...
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-15 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-15 14:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qom: add error handler for object alias property arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 15:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qom: add target object poniter for alias property in ObjectProperty arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qmp: print real legacy_name for alias property arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 17:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-15 15:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-15 17:38 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-15 17:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-09-16 7:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 7:53 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 8:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 9:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 9:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 10:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 10:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 13:31 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 16:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 16:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 16:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 18:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 19:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 19:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-17 6:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 20:00 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-17 5:54 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-17 12:58 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-16 14:32 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 14:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-17 2:31 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 8:26 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-15 17:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-15 17:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 0:42 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 8:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 8:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-22 8:49 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 9:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 9:33 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 10:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 11:22 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 12:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-22 12:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23 3:09 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-23 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23 9:13 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 9:18 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-23 9:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 9:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-23 9:17 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 12:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 13:13 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:36 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:45 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:19 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 11:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 13:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23 4:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-23 11:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 9:29 ` Markus Armbruster
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