Il lun 15 feb 2021, 20:56 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> ha
scritto:
> Alternatively, maybe we could not deprecate this really common syntax
> pattern that's going to be in lots of peoples' examples, tutorials,
> shell scripts and command lines ?
>
Unfortunately there is no way to change the code to distinguish okay uses
from broken ones. The fundamental issue is that QemuOpts is sometimes typed
and sometimes not, so it lacks the information to say that "-chardev
socket,server" is fine but "-device virtio-blk-pci,noserial" ("set serial
number to the string 'no'") is not.
I don't plan to remove the syntax altogether from QemuOpts, but I want to
keep open the possibility of switching some options (especially -machine
and -object) to a parser which doesn't support it.
Paolo
> thanks
> -- PMM
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