On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 10:33, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> writes: > > > Am 04.09.2023 um 18:25 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben: > >> By the time of the 8.2.0 release, it will have been 2 years and 6 > >> releases since we accidentally broke setting of array properties > >> for user creatable devices: > >> > >> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1090 > > > > Oh, nice! > > Nice? *Awesome*! > > > Well, maybe that sounds a bit wrong, but the syntax that was broken was > > problematic and more of a hack, > > A monstrosity, in my opinion. I tried to strangle it in the crib, but > its guardians wouldn't let me. Can dig up references for the morbidly > curious.
I don't care about the syntax on the command line much (AFAIK that's just the rocker device). But the actual feature is used more widely within QEMU itself for devices created in C code, which is what it was intended for. If you want to get rid of it you need to provide an adequate replacement. -- PMM
