From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6yn-00017L-JT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:57:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6yj-0002cV-CC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:57:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:57:13 -0300 From: Eduardo Habkost Message-ID: <20180810125713.GS15372@localhost.localdomain> References: <20180810124027.10698-1-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180810124027.10698-1-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fw_cfg: ignore suffixes in the bootdevice list dependent on machine class List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark Cave-Ayland Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, lersek@redhat.com, marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com, arei.gonglei@huawei.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 01:40:27PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > For the older machines (such as Mac and SPARC) the DT nodes representing > bootdevices for disk nodes are irregular for mainly historical reasons. > > Since the majority of bootdevice nodes for these machines either do not have a > separate disk node or require different (custom) names then it is much easier > for processing to just disable all suffixes for a particular machine. > > Introduce a new ignore_boot_device_suffixes MachineClass property to control > bootdevice suffix generation, defaulting to false in order to preserve > compatibility. > > Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost > Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland Thanks, I'm queueing this for 3.1: https://github.com/ehabkost/qemu.git machine-for-3.1 -- Eduardo