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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:03:16 +0200
From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] QemuOpts: framework for storing and
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Gerd Hoffmann schrieb:
> This stores device parameters in a better way than unparsed strings.
> 
> New types:
>   QemuOpt       -  one key-value pair.
>   QemuOpts      -  group of key-value pairs, belonging to one
>                    device, i.e. one drive.
>   QemuOptsList  -  list of some kind of devices, i.e. all drives.

What about having the options typed like I did in qemu-option.[ch]?

In general qemu-option seems to do more parsing/checking than QemuOpts
does, on the other hand it's not yet generic enough to suit everything.
Maybe a combination of both would be the right thing?

Kevin