Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/7] bootindex: add modify_boot_device_path function

[Gonglei (Arei)]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerd Hoffmann [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] bootindex: add modify_boot_device_path function
> 
> > > I think it is ok to allow only *changing* the bootindex.
> > >
> > Yes, that's no problem.
> 
> But then yoy always  will have a old entry where you can take the suffix
> from, and you don't need the suffix as parameter for the monitor
> command.
> 
No, optional. 

Because the bootindex property is not a necessary property for devices.
If a device, such as IDE cdrom haven't attach the bootindex in qemu booting 
command line, the global fw_boot_order will not have its entry. So, we should
save the suffix as parameter.

Best regards,
-Gonglei