From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH] KVM test: refactor kvm_config.py Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:28:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4D525E58.4080009@redhat.com> References: <1297216207-28375-1-git-send-email-mgoldish@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: autotest@test.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Uri Lublin To: Michael Goldish Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31284 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752415Ab1BIJ3A (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:29:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1297216207-28375-1-git-send-email-mgoldish@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function