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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:09 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Machine config files
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To: Kevin Wolf <mail@kevin-wolf.de>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Markus Armbruster schrieb:
>   
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not against configuration files. Having them is
> great and probably I'd even find some uses for them occasionally. I just
> don't want to be _forced_ to use them which I fear is what Paul is
> talking about.
>   

What we need is a command line option that can be used to manipulate a 
device tree.  All of the existing options could then be implemented in 
terms of the former option.

There will probably be a lot of things in the future that you can only 
do via device tree manipulation.  I don't see any reason why not to add 
convenient syntax though for the most common things.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori