On Mo, 2015-06-01 at 14:43 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 01/06/2015 14:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:39:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 01/06/2015 14:38, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>> I'm sorry - I don't understand. It's easy to do the right thing. Just > >>> add the opt prefix. Why insist on user doing the right thing, and punish > >>> violations with failing at random? > >>> > >>> If it's useful for developers somehow, add a config flag for that. > >> > >> You've already been explained that config flags are not an answer. > > > > Oh then just #define FW_CFG_USER_PREFIX "opt/". > > > > Developers can edit that to "" if they want to play. > > Shall we agree to just let Gerd decide since he's handling these patches?
I can't see a strong reasons to change things. The docs clearly recommend to use opt/ prefix to avoid conflicts. That is fine IMHO. I don't feel like enforcing that in code, being able to use something else can be useful for debugging/testing purposes. For example there are some etc/* things seabios looks at which qemu has no support for. One can also supply option roms with the new switch. cheers, Gerd
