Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/06/2015 09:28, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I don't feel overly strongly about it; just "mechanism, not policy"
> > looks like a good tradition (well, good excuse anyway).
> 
> Most users never see warnings. We ship it, we support it.
> If we don't want to support it, let's not ship it.

Then we should rm -rf half of QEMU. :)

Seriously, I agree wholeheartedly with not baking policy into QEMU.  A
lot of QEMU command-line hacking really is just a shortcut to avoid
continuous recompilation.  I don't think it's reasonable to expect that
it constitutes a stable API.

Paolo