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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] machine: replace underscores in machine's
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Il 17/07/2014 18:47, Michael Roth ha scritto:
>> > My argument for getting this into 2.1 had been to avoid tools picking up
>> > these to-be-renamed property names from the start. At this point, I'm
>> > not so sure whether it's worse to break management tools or potentially
>> > some rarely used/tested option - if we decide for 2.2, is backporting to
>> > 2.1.1 an option if we document it in the release notes?
> IMO, if there's some risk to breaking management or other tools, I'd
> rather it be left to major releases. And if these values are already misnamed
> for 2.1.0 and prior, I don't think we stop it from poliferating much more by
> pushing the fix up by a few months.

I'm not sure in which case management could break (except for qom-get). 
  Andreas, can you explain?

Paolo