Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 for-1.2 00/27] Suppress unused default drives

[Anthony Liguori]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 15 August 2012 20:25, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 15.08.2012, at 21:17, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>>> We create a number of default drives for machines to use: floppy,
>>> CD-ROM, SD card.  Machines can suppress the ones they don't use, but
>>> few do.  Fix that.
>
>>> v2:
>>>  Make default drives opt-in instead of opt-out for boards (Andreas)
>>>  Cover new target unicore32
>>>  Bonus fix for unicore32 -M puv3 without -kernel
>>>  Cover mpc8544ds, pseries (missed in v1)
>>
>> Nack from my POV. Too late for 1.2. Better get this in early for 1.3.

No, it's not too late for 1.2.

The release process is pretty clear.  Major features needed to be posted
before August 1st.  The late to get non-bug fixes in is today.

This is not a major feature but more importantly, has gone through a few
revisions and has gotten positive review comments.

So let's not just go around declaring things as being "too late".  If
something needs more review or hasn't gotten adequate review, it's
perfectly acceptable to point that out.  But please don't just Nack and
say it's too late.

> Agree. I also think we should follow up Paul Brook's suggestion
> that we don't need to have any kind of "default sd card" flag
> at all. Floppy is weird because we don't properly separate out
> the drive and the controller, right? Not sure about cdrom...

This is a valid critique and suggests that more review is needed.
Given that, I won't pick this up today.  But let's not throw around
Nacks without justification.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM