From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45835) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agXu0-0002HA-VA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:23:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agXtw-00085a-U5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:23:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agXtw-00085V-Oe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:23:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:23:39 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20160317152027-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <20160316181541.GG12454@HEDWIG.INI.CMU.EDU> <56E9A75D.60603@redhat.com> <1458204143.26199.8.camel@redhat.com> <56EA7C2C.6070905@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56EA7C2C.6070905@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: disallow command line fw cfg without opt/ List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laszlo Ersek Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , Gerd Hoffmann , armbru@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:43:08AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > And, obviously, exposing this kind of knob with dedicated QEMU options > is out of question. We are moving away from dedicated options anyway. But these could easily be machine properties, with the benefit that there is actual validation of values, some help and documentation for users, nice shortcuts like G/M/K for numbers, introspection, unit tests and more. -- MST