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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Gabriel L . Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fw_cfg: RQFN rules, documentation
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 11:35:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160405113207-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5702A108.6010002@redhat.com>

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 04/04/16 17:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> >> ... My question is, do we need the "opt/" prefix at all (for the future,
> >> i.e., the non-historical cases)?
> >> Looking at the last discussion, I
> >> believe we converged on:
> >>
> >> - QEMU devs (future filenames): org.qemu/...
> >> - users:                        com.my_company/...
> >> - QEMU fw devs (future names):  org.tianocore.edk2.ovmf/...
> >>                                 org.seabios/...
> >> - QEMU fw devs hacking:         <root-prefix-to-strip>/...
> >>
> >> Did you find something unsafe about this (necessitating "opt/")?
> >>
> > 
> > The reason to use the opt/ prefix is to avoid warning
> > with QEMU 2.4 and 2.5.
> 
> Sorry, it's been a long day :), and I don't understand your answer. Can
> you please spell it out for me? How are QEMU 2.4 and 2.5 related to this
> discussion?
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo

People would want to use the same command line for QEMU 2.4, 2.5 and
2.6. If you use a prefix without opt with 2.4/2.5 you get a warning,
and if people get a warning from a valid command line, that's not nice, so
we want a prefix that does not cause a warning for these versions.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 10:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fw_cfg: RQFN rules, documentation Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-04 13:09 ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-04-04 15:57   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-04 17:14     ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-04-05  8:35       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2016-04-05  9:20         ` Laszlo Ersek

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