Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/7] vl.c: added -kerndtb option

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> On 01/26/2012 12:34 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On 01/24/2012 12:23 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>> I'd prefer a different solution. As far as I have understood,
>>> the dtb is only useful with a kernel, so it could be handled
>>> as an optional attribute to the -kernel parameter:
>>>
>>>     -kernel IMAGE[,dtb=DTB]
>>>
>>> Of course the same applies to -append, but that's a different issue.
>> 
>> -initrd as well.
>> 
>> This would mean you couldn't have a comma in a filename (shouldn't come
>> up often, but still ugly).
>
> In other instances where you use a comma to separate arguments and also
> want to accept commas in arbitrary file names, qemu has used the notion
> of a double comma as being the escape sequence for a single comma in the
> intended file name, rather than a separator for later arguments.

Use QemuOpts for NAME=VALUE,... arguments.  Common code, common
syntactic conventions.