Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1 v2] Allow machines to configure the QEMU_VERSION that's exposed via hardware

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 April 2012 02:50, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 04:24 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> This is still changing the version printed in a bunch of user
>> facing usage and help messages. Please drop those.
>
>
> Why? Changing the help messages is not necessary or useful.  We just need to
> make sure the guest ABI remains stable.

Er, you seem to be furiously agreeing with me? This
patch includes hunks that change how we handle eg
usage messages for bsd-user and qemu-img. I agree with
you that we should not be changing those, so why are
they in the patch?

I'm also suspicious about lying about the version string
in the monitor interface, but I'm not a monitor expert
so you'll have to tell me whether that one's right.

Oh, and osdep.c is definitely the wrong place to define
qemu_{set,get}_version().

-- PMM