Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] QemuOpts: framework for storing and parsing options.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 07/17/09 09:03, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 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]?

Oh, I didn't see that.  I just looked at the (old) parsing code in vl.c 
uses by almost everybody.

> 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?

I'll have a closer look.  Who uses qemu-options?  qemu-io I assume?

cheers,
   Gerd