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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/4] Load global config files by default
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: John Cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 01/21/10 19:48, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The ordering is a little troubling.  Command line options are parsed before
> loading the default configs which means that the command line configs will be
> loaded before the default config.  The effect is that the default config will
> override -readconfig directives.
 >
> It's unclear the best way to handle this.

Maybe we need two passes over the command line options?

-confdir and -nodefconfig switches would be handled in the first pass, 
then read the global config files (unless disabled), then the second pass.

I think we could also make the default device handling less messy that 
way by checking -nographic and -nodefaults in the first pass too. 
Having the machine type (-M) read in the first pass could allow some 
cleanups too.

cheers,
   Gerd