Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:57:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 15/09/2014 16:44, address@hidden ha scritto:
> > From: Gonglei <address@hidden>
> > 
> > At present, people have no way to know they should
> > have a specific format for alias properties.
> > 
> >  Example:
> > 
> > before output:
> > 
> > virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=uint16
> > virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=uint16
> > virtio-blk-pci.drive=str
> > 
> > after output applied this patch series:
> > 
> > virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=blocksize
> > virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=blocksize
> > virtio-blk-pci.drive=drive
> 
> Is there actually anyone that is relying on the legacy_names of
> properties?  I would be inclined to drop them altogether...
> 
> Paolo

What makes these legacy?
How do you expect users to find out about the properties?
>qemu -device virtio-blk-pci.?
is not the correct way anymore?

How the time flies, it seems only yesterday this was the
new way, -help was the old one ...

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MST