Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v5 1/6] boot: extend get_boot_devices_list() to ignore suffixes

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 20/02/2014 14:50, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> As suffixes do not make sense for sPAPR's device tree and
> there is no way to filter them out on the BusState::get_fw_dev_path
> level, let's add an ability for the external caller to specify
> whether to apply suffixes or not.
>
> We could handle suffixes in SLOF (ignore for now) but this would require
> serious rework in the node opening code in SLOF which has no obvious
> benefit for the currently emulated sPAPR machine.

For the record, the commit message is not entirely correct in presenting 
the situation.  QEMU *does not care in any way* of benefits for the 
currently emulated sPAPR machine.  The benefit would be to QEMU in 
having simpler code.

You just got a wildcard because Forth is scary. :)

Paolo

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> ---
> Changes:
> v4:
> * changed commit message about not having plans in SLOF rework as it is scary :)