From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui1eD-0003gZ-Kq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:08:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui1e8-0004yO-Tz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:08:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui1e8-0004yI-Kb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 08:07:56 -0400 Message-ID: <51A7410F.6090700@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 06:07:43 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <51A72348.7040306@ilande.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <51A72348.7040306@ilande.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2AGNMTMVAVIUSHOPNJGGB" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unable to parse -device drivers containing commas? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark Cave-Ayland Cc: qemu-devel This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2AGNMTMVAVIUSHOPNJGGB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/30/2013 04:00 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I found that the QEMU -device command line parser doesn't seem to like > driver names containing a comma such as "SUNW,tcx" for the video driver= > on qemu-system-sparc: >=20 > $ ./qemu-system-sparc -device SUNW,tcx,help > Is there a way of escaping the > commas on the command line so that it is possible to list properties fo= r > drivers named in this way? Commas are escaped by doubling them. Try ./qemu-system-sparc -device SUNW,,tcx,help That's the generic quoting we've used for escaping commas in all new command line options, although there may be some older options that still need to be taught to honor that escaping. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org ------enig2AGNMTMVAVIUSHOPNJGGB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRp0EPAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqiNYH/iiSHzC+dm8KDzFdYdPq9bYs HcnG3jycEgRlWq+GwbXRVG/NdR0WD8psiwlblPY+4wgdPejBg6jTFHBxCcRodY0Z AXT+cWQDy3oltzkW7KQaoYoqZt3fgrC3KLdJG/QhzJClwUuFUjJLRpBiOLZwL8JO SKc8n7WELaGUuppbK7yJkVGI00fadplKWI85bf/Dj2f+fJGkdcZJmMKvnc7oaJUf GRj+gVcn2F/b0SgAy6ErwX2gvELFB4Xksh0/3awt+qCM0zfVPCiCJozYyIPhWO8S POyTootfPJN6fXi9E9fFNyp7saPmDSxb4myV5+A2fpEQ08Vq25qlLt0tvMdlxQk= =Jz6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2AGNMTMVAVIUSHOPNJGGB--