Re: [PATCH 0/3] vl: add -object support back into -readconfig

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 19/05/21 15:58, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 18.05.2021 um 17:40 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
>> LXD developers have reported that [object] stanzas have stopped
>> working in configuration files.
>>
>> The problem is that QEMU 6.0 switched the creation of objects from
>> qemu_opts_foreach to a bespoke QTAILQ, in preparation for supporting
>> JSON syntax in -object.  Entries from the configuration file however
>> do not go through object_option_parse, and are thus lost.  Of the many
>> fixes that are possible, I chose one that is slightly more invasive but
>> more consistent with the plans for keyval-ification of options such as
>> -M and -accel.
>>
>> -set was also broken by the same change, but for simplicity I chose
>> not to add it back yet.  However, this series will report the
>> breakage instead of failing silently.
>>
>> The first two patches of this series are thus a reduced version of
>> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210513162901.1310239-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/
>> ([PATCH 00/14] vl: compound properties for machines and accelerators),
>> with the -set infrastructure removed.  The third is very simple and
>> uses the newly-provided hooks to parse objects from configuration files.
> 
> Looks like this is
> Based-on: <20210518131542.2941207-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>

Just context, but yes it is.

Paolo