From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MysYr-0004HY-7f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:34:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MysYm-0004DT-H9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:34:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42188 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MysYl-0004DF-UJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:33:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56494) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MysYl-0006dK-CK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:33:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD8CA9E.50402@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:33:50 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] QemuOpts: command line switches for the config file. References: <1255509568-10635-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1255509568-10635-5-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1255718902.25855.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1255718902.25855.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Nathan Baum Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 10/16/09 20:48, Nathan Baum wrote: > In the medium term, perhaps a "legacy_options" option which can be > automatically parsed by -readconfig. > > In the short term, just put the non-QemuOpt options in a comment. > > (In the long term, hopefully there won't be any legacy options.) Yes. > I've knocked up something which does the short term solution. Hmm, I'd prefer to simply ignore legacy options. Then join forces for the long-term solution instead of implementing something temporary. cheers, Gerd