On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:20:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 July 2013 17:16, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > > Or something vaguely understandable by a human? > > I think this is actually one of the main issues with trying > to get rid of the 'legacy' command line options. They > may be a random mishmash of things, but they're also > often much easier to understand, remember and type than > the new-style options that are supposed to replace them :-( > > -- PMM
The new-style ones are not really harder to understand, but they are mostly undocumented. I think that's the real issue. I think recent patchset to at least classify -device help output by Marcel is a step in the right direction here. -- MST
