Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add hotplug opt-out option for devices.

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add hotplug opt-out option for devices.
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:07:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE51714.6070303@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118114225.GH7948@redhat.com>

On 18.11.2010 14:42, Gleb Natapov wrote:
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>> For *that* use case well have to do a bit more like dynamically
>> building the acpi table which indicates which slots are
>> hot-pluggable and which are not.  Which indeed would be useful and
>> would fix the windows xp offering me to unplug the piix chipset in
>> the "savely remove hardware" menu ;)
>>
> Yes, but management has to specify to us somehow that certain device
> is not hotpluggable and notunplug=no looks like good way to do it.

Can we _please_ get rid of this double negative and specify
it as usual hotplug={on|off} ? :)  It does not matter if in
the code it will be called nohotplug, the parameter parser
function can perform the necessary negation.  nohotplug=no
is just plain wrong ;)

/mjt