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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Cc: marcandre.lureau@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/2] Improve -help
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:50:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006015015-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5612F3F8.7010803@redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/10/2015 23:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:20:19PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >> no more comments, it should mean it's ok ?
> >>
> >> Can someone merge this or just say "stop this, I don't want that"...
> >>
> >> Laurent
> > 
> > I'm afraid as a first step, we need to bring some order into -help.
> 
> I agree with your comments, but the aim of this series is not to change
> the content, only the container.

That's my point, with content as it is, changing the container
makes things worse not better IMHO.

> It will be easy to add sections once this done.
> 
> > I also suspect that a good place to start doing that is the man page.
> 
> Man page and help are generated from qemu-options.hx, so improving one
> is also
> improving the other, but I think I'm not the good guy to rewrite a man
> page... I'm a mechanic, not a writer :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurent

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-05 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-14 18:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/2] Improve -help Laurent Vivier
2015-09-14 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/2] vl: Allow to define optional parameter with -arg[=params] Laurent Vivier
2015-09-24 16:14   ` Laurent Vivier
2015-09-14 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] Use help sub-sections to create sub-help options Laurent Vivier
2015-09-24 16:14   ` Laurent Vivier
2015-10-05 21:00   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-05 13:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/2] Improve -help Laurent Vivier
2015-10-05 15:08   ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-10-05 15:17     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-10-05 21:08   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-05 22:04     ` Laurent Vivier
2015-10-05 22:50       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-10-05 15:32 ` Paolo Bonzini

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