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

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 16/09/2014 18:26, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> Right so types should be explicit.
> If an arbitrary string isn't allowed, this should be documented.
> It's not great as is: what's the format for macaddr? AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF?
> aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff? aabbccddeeff? 0xaabbccddeeff?
> But just saying "string" is going in the wrong direction imho.

That's the purpose of documentation (docs/qdev-device-use.txt), and even
then is better done with examples.  I don't think doing it in -device
foo,help (which I'm not even sure is particularly helpful.

"ip link help" doesn't document the format of a MAC address, either.

I'm sympathetic towards fixing the drive->str change, but I have no idea
how to do it.

Paolo