From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Michael Goldish <mgoldish@redhat.com>,
autotest@test.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Uri Lublin <ulublin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH] KVM test: refactor kvm_config.py
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:42:40 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297341760.2605.9.camel@freedom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110210011847.GA1118@t173.nay.redhat.com>
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:18 +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:28:56AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 02/09/2011 03:50 AM, Michael Goldish wrote:
> > >This is a reimplementation of the dict generator. It is much faster than the
> > >current implementation and uses a very small amount of memory. Running time
> > >and memory usage scale polynomially with the number of defined variants,
> > >compared to exponentially in the current implementation.
> > >
> > >Instead of regular expressions in the filters, the following syntax is used:
> > >
> > >, means OR
> > >.. means AND
> > >. means IMMEDIATELY-FOLLOWED-BY
> > >
> > >Example:
> > >
> > >only qcow2..Fedora.14, RHEL.6..raw..boot, smp2..qcow2..migrate..ide
> > >
> >
> >
> > Is it not possible to keep the old syntax? Breaking people's
> > scripts is bad.
>
> we only need convert the configure file, it's not too complex
Yes, the benefits of the new format outnumber the inconveniences. As for
my opinion on the operator, .. is sufficiently clear and expressive to
do most of the stuff we need to do with configuration anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-09 1:50 [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH] KVM test: refactor kvm_config.py Michael Goldish
2011-02-09 2:56 ` Cleber Rosa
2011-02-09 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-09 10:07 ` Michael Goldish
2011-02-09 10:19 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 1:18 ` Amos Kong
2011-02-10 12:42 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues [this message]
2011-02-09 16:06 ` Ryan Harper
2011-02-09 16:21 ` Eduardo Habkost
2011-02-09 23:31 ` [Autotest] " Ryan Harper
2011-02-10 9:14 ` Michael Goldish
2011-02-10 10:34 ` [Autotest] " Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 10:46 ` Michael Goldish
2011-02-10 10:47 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 10:55 ` Michael Goldish
2011-02-10 10:57 ` [Autotest] " Michael Goldish
2011-02-10 11:03 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 11:46 ` Michael Goldish
2011-02-10 13:45 ` Eduardo Habkost
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