Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Man page: Add -global description

[Markus Armbruster]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:

> Just while we're here, I'll be posting the following shortly:
>
> commit 82aff428155d469ab705294486cc26cb34947999
> Author: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> Date:   Fri Dec 23 11:30:45 2011 -0600
>
> qdev: don't allow globals to be set by bus name
>
> This is technically a compatibility breaker.  However:
>
> 1) libvirt does not rely on this (it always uses the driver name)
>
> 2) This behavior isn't actually documented anywhere (the docs just say 
> driver).
>
> 3) I suspect there are less than three people on earth that even know this is
>    possible (minus the people reading this message).
>
> So I think we can safely break it :-)

Go right ahead.  We shouldn't tie ourselves up in knots over
undocumented behavior, unless there's clear evidence of use.