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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: gsomlo@gmail.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>, matt.fleming@intel.com, kraxel@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 06/01/15 12:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/06/2015 09:28, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>> I don't feel overly strongly about it; just "mechanism, not policy"
>>>> looks like a good tradition (well, good excuse anyway).
>>>
>>> Most users never see warnings. We ship it, we support it.
>>> If we don't want to support it, let's not ship it.
>>
>> Then we should rm -rf half of QEMU. :)
>>
>> Seriously, I agree wholeheartedly with not baking policy into QEMU.  A
>> lot of QEMU command-line hacking really is just a shortcut to avoid
>> continuous recompilation.  I don't think it's reasonable to expect that
>> it constitutes a stable API.
>>
>> Paolo
> 
> Still, reserving part of the namespace for QEMU internal use
> is *not* policy, it's just good engineering.
> 
> How about we forbid adding files under "etc/" ?
> 
> That would be enough to avoid conflicts.

Some of the current fw_cfg files, like "bootorder", are not under
"etc/". Hence the earlier proposal to restrict the user (to under opt/,
IIRC), rather than ourselves.

Thanks
Laszlo