From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0AkO-000392-W6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:38:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0AkL-0005JJ-PV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:38:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0AkL-0005JB-KR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:38:25 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33AE5CA65D for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <556F1F6C.8000401@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:38:20 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1432732141-33915-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <87a8whszmv.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <556F03EB.6000905@redhat.com> <877frkn76x.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <877frkn76x.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] watchdog: convert to QemuOpts List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, rjones@redhat.com On 03/06/2015 17:27, Markus Armbruster wrote: > I agree that "watchdog-action" is an ugly name for backend > configuration. "watchdog" would be fine, but we foolishly burned that > on silly command line sugar for the frontend. > > "watchdog-config"? Precedent: "semihosting-config". Sucks, but at least is consistent. It was hard to convince me on this as I was just typing "git send-pull" when I got your review, but you did it. :) Paolo > Then make -watchdog T pure sugar for -device T, and -watchdog-action A > pure sugar for -watchdog-config action=A. > > Not demands, just ideas.