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

[Michael Tokarev]

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