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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:01:19 +0300 |
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:31:08PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 16/09/2014 18:56, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:27:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> 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),
> >
> > That's not user documentation, that's developer documentation,
> > isn't it?
>
> It's user documentation. It's not distributed because we suck at
> documentation.
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > -device foo,help isn't helpful at all because it does not
> > tell people what does each option do.
> > But it really should be fixed.
>
> Exactly.
>
> >> I'm sympathetic towards fixing the drive->str change, but I have no idea
> >> how to do it.
> >
> > Change legacy_name to point to a detailed human-readable
> > description of the type?
> > E.g. "Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, format: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"?
>
> If libvirt can cope with
>
> e1000.mac=str (Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, format: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF)
>
> that would work for me.
Shouldn't "str" be "string" in HMP?
Eblake - type is ignored right? Does this mean anything to the right of
= is ignored?
> > We really really should add description to all properties, too.
>
> This is a huge job. We have hundreds of properties.
>
> Paolo
Right. If we don't start we won't get there though, will we?
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Markus Armbruster, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Gonglei (Arei), 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Markus Armbruster, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Eric Blake, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Markus Armbruster, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Eric Blake, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Markus Armbruster, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Gonglei (Arei), 2014/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Gonglei (Arei), 2014/09/22
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/09/15