From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiKCK-0002GQ-48 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 03:56:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiKCI-0005Nl-9K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 03:56:28 -0400 Received: from katherinewilliamsonsoprano.co.uk ([82.165.34.74]:50785 helo=p15195424.pureserver.info) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiKCI-0005NS-1M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 03:56:26 -0400 Message-ID: <51A85798.9000000@ilande.co.uk> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 08:56:08 +0100 From: Mark Cave-Ayland MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <51A72348.7040306@ilande.co.uk> <51A7410F.6090700@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <51A7410F.6090700@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unable to parse -device drivers containing commas? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: qemu-devel On 30/05/13 13:07, Eric Blake wrote: >> Is there a way of escaping the >> commas on the command line so that it is possible to list properties for >> 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. Hi Eric, Yes that works absolutely fine here - thanks for the pointer! Many thanks, Mark.