From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTYfJ-0006q6-MS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:58:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTYfC-0000EH-Nb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:58:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTYfC-0000E5-H6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:58:02 -0400 Message-ID: <54170C7F.8080409@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:57:51 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1410792279-2488-1-git-send-email-arei.gonglei@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <1410792279-2488-1-git-send-email-arei.gonglei@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: arei.gonglei@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: agraf@suse.de, weidong.huang@huawei.com, aliguori@amazon.com, mst@redhat.com, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com Il 15/09/2014 16:44, arei.gonglei@huawei.com ha scritto: > From: Gonglei > > At present, people have no way to know they should > have a specific format for alias properties. > > Example: > > before output: > > virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=uint16 > virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=uint16 > virtio-blk-pci.drive=str > > after output applied this patch series: > > virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=blocksize > virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=blocksize > virtio-blk-pci.drive=drive Is there actually anyone that is relying on the legacy_names of properties? I would be inclined to drop them altogether... Paolo