Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: Support multiple CPU ranges on -numa option

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> Il 26/02/2013 20:35, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> See also discussion on multi-valued keys in command line option
>>>> >> arguments and config files in v1 thread.  Hopefully we can reach a
>>>> >> conclusion soon, and then we'll see whether this patch is what we want.
>>> >
>>> > Yeah, let's drop this patch by now. I am starting to be convinced that
>>> > "cpus=A,cpus=B,cpus=C" is the best approach. It is not pretty, but at
>>> > least it uses generic parser code instead of yet another ad-hoc
>>> > parser.
>> No, we cannot rely on this behavior.  We had to do it to support
>> backwards compat with netdev but it should not be used anywhere else.
>
> We chose a config format (git's) because it was a good match for
> QemuOpts, and multiple-valued operations are well supported by that
> config format; see git-config(1).  There is no reason to consider it a
> backwards-compatibility hack.

Seconded.