From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d3lIp-0006JY-Nl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:25:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d3lIo-00024i-Th for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:25:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:25:45 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf Message-ID: <20170427152545.GI4805@noname.str.redhat.com> References: <20170426134649.9042-1-mreitz@redhat.com> <20170426134649.9042-4-mreitz@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170426134649.9042-4-mreitz@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] qemu-img: Document backing options List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Max Reitz Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eric Blake , Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= Am 26.04.2017 um 15:46 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > The create and convert subcommands have shorthands to set the > backing_file and, in the case of create, the backing_fmt options for the > new image. However, they have not been documented so far, which is > remedied by this patch. > > Reported-by: Eric Blake > Signed-off-by: Max Reitz I think originally the idea was to remove the individual special case options in the long term in favour of the uniform -o. But I don't think the short options have fallen out of use, so we can as well document them again... Maybe we could change the implementation, however, so that the old options are really just aliases for the respective -o version. Kevin