From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39232 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7pdU-0006uB-V1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:52:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7pdT-00052n-HF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:52:36 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.212.45]:54480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7pdT-00052U-Eb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:52:35 -0400 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so2200921vws.4 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:52:34 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <312edea8efadfde52c4c6d267c924cf2.squirrel@humppa.name> <03A8D429-04D0-42D9-A664-7C52B3A4F812@suse.de> <7f0b8ad36b8e8d1828f0dfc1803c0da0.squirrel@humppa.name> <7CF0A1FA-F21A-4F3A-87D4-A62F1E4B21E6@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:52:34 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw: improve multiboot module loading From: Stefan Hajnoczi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ralf Ramsauer Cc: QEMU Developers On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Ralf Ramsauer wrote: > On 07.04.2011, at 14:48, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >> Out of curiousity, why are you trying to kill spaces at all? >> >> Why not just use a correct command-line to invoke QEMU? >> >> Stefan > > Well it took me 2 days to find out why -initrd "module1, module2" didn't = work. If there's a space after the comma you'll always > get the error message "Failed to get =A0image size". How about improving the error message? > And if you want to pass a comma in a multiboot argument you've no way to = do this. > So -initrd"module1 settings=3Duse_foo,use_bar" won't work! >>From what I can tell your patch does not change this. Stefan