On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 12:43:35PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 01/06/2015 12:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > 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. > > I do not understand. What we're doing is free-beer. We can always say > no. What's your worry?
Someone writes a tool using a specific path. We then add same path upstream, script breaks. > One usecase of this feature is to avoid recompiling QEMU while playing > with firmware. If you cannot mimic QEMU's behavior (which is to add > "etc/" files), the feature is pointless, or at least I totally cannot > understand its purpose and I'm against merging it. > > Paolo Confused. Why does it produce the warning then? If it's just for playing games, add a configure switch to enable it, and disable by default. Don't set traps for users. -- MST
