Il 20/02/2014 17:02, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
Not unexpected, it's the older; the - convention was introduced possibly
with QOM around start of 2012. Or at least there it's been enforced, and
by my understanding of QOM and QMP visibility it then applies to devices
as well.
Regarding QMP, I consider it smarter to do the _ -> - matching at
QemuOpts level than somewhere inside QOM.
That's fine, because device_add uses QemuOpts internally.
For -cpu we have such compatibility code (although non-QemuOpts) in
target-i386/cpu.c, converting all underscores. Unfortunately that won't
work as long as there are underscores in old properties. Maybe you have
some cool patch idea?
Well, no cool idea except "once conversion is done at the QemuOpts
level, do a full sweep of s/_/-/". This should be done before we'll be
able to create devices with object-add. I think as long as we have a
plan, consistency trumps design-by-committee convention.
Paolo
