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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 12:43:35PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/06/2015 12:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Still, reserving part of the namespace for QEMU internal use
> > is *not* policy, it's just good engineering.
> > 
> > How about we forbid adding files under "etc/" ?
> > 
> > That would be enough to avoid conflicts.
> 
> I do not understand.  What we're doing is free-beer.  We can always say
> no.  What's your worry?

Someone writes a tool using a specific path.
We then add same path upstream, script breaks.

> One usecase of this feature is to avoid recompiling QEMU while playing
> with firmware.  If you cannot mimic QEMU's behavior (which is to add
> "etc/" files), the feature is pointless, or at least I totally cannot
> understand its purpose and I'm against merging it.
> 
> Paolo

Confused.  Why does it produce the warning then?

If it's just for playing games, add a configure
switch to enable it, and disable by default.
Don't set traps for users.

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MST