Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH v4 3/4] nvdimm, acpi: support NFIT platform capabilities

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 11:20:58PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) 
wrote:
> 
> > > Okay, we can move to the symbolic names.  Do you want them to be that
> > long, or
> > > would:
> > >
> > > nvdimm-cap-cpu
> > > nvdimm-cap-mem-ctrl
> > > nvdimm-cap-mirroring
> > 
> > Wait, why is mirroring part of this?
> 
> This data structure is intended to report any kind of platform capability, 
> not 
> just platform persistence capabilities.
> 
> We could add a short symbolic name to the definitions in ACPI that matches
> the ones selected for this command line option, if that'll help people
> find the right names to use.
> 
> I recommend mc rather than mem-ctrl to keep dashes as special.
> 

I'm not sure it's a good idea:
dashes aren't special in qemu, and mc's way too brief.

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