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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:54:36PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 15/03/2016 15:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Do you look at all warnings all your software prints?
> 
> Yes.  I also try to understand them, and if they seem useless I propose
> a patch upstream.
> 
> > What if user uses some tool to build the command line?
> > 
> > consider mem-path - for years we printed a warning if
> > it's not on hugetlbfs. It worked and users just ignored it.
> 
> That was a bad warning though.  There was no reason to warn.
> 
> It was also the smallest problem with the original hugetlbfs patches.
> 
> > So now Corey basically is prevented from sorting sanely
> > because command line might not start with opt/
> 
> Can you explain?
> 
> Paolo

Ask Corey:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/400540/focus=400799


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