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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, gsomlo@gmail.com, kraxel@redhat.com,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:23:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601121908-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556C1F63.1090605@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/06/2015 09:28, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > I don't feel overly strongly about it; just "mechanism, not policy"
> > > looks like a good tradition (well, good excuse anyway).
> > 
> > Most users never see warnings. We ship it, we support it.
> > If we don't want to support it, let's not ship it.
> 
> Then we should rm -rf half of QEMU. :)
> 
> Seriously, I agree wholeheartedly with not baking policy into QEMU.  A
> lot of QEMU command-line hacking really is just a shortcut to avoid
> continuous recompilation.  I don't think it's reasonable to expect that
> it constitutes a stable API.
> 
> Paolo

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.


-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-01 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29 15:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/4] fw-cfg: cleanup and user-provided command line blobs Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-04-29 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 1/4] fw_cfg: remove support for guest-side data writes Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-04-29 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 2/4] fw_cfg: prevent selector key conflict Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-04-29 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 3/4] fw_cfg: prohibit insertion of duplicate fw_cfg file names Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-04-29 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-05-31 18:10   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01  7:06     ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-06-01  7:28       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01  9:01         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-01 10:23           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-06-01 10:35             ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-06-01 10:42               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 11:19                 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-06-01 10:43             ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-01 10:48               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 10:50                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-01 11:00                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 11:18                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-01 11:05                   ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-06-01 11:20                 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-06-01 11:21                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-01 11:26                 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-06-01 12:38                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 12:39                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-01 12:41                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-01 12:43                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-02  7:37                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-02  8:28                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-02  9:43                               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-01 13:21                     ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-06-01 11:24               ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-05-18 13:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/4] fw-cfg: cleanup and user-provided command line blobs Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-05-29 12:41   ` Gerd Hoffmann

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