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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl: process -object after other backend
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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Il 27/08/2014 15:34, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> Option ordering is a bad idea.  With an option as generic as -object,
> who can say that there will never be a non-object that depends on an
> -object?
> 
> We should process the command-line left-to-right instead of ordering by
> option type.  Maybe that would be a good QEMU 3.0 feature! :)
> 
> Feel free to merge if it works for now, but we'll need a better fix in
> the future.

I agree on all points.

Paolo