Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix double backslash problem in Windows

[Laurent Vivier]

Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 12:27 +0000, Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> > but "-hda" is an alias for "-drive file="%s",index=%d,media=disk".
> 
> It appears to me as if "-hda" is implemented suboptimally, then.  In 
> particular, drive_add() should be able to get a separate "file" parameter, 
> which can be overridden by the "fmt" parameter.  Of course, this would 
> mean that the global drives_opt[] array should not have element type 
> "char", but a struct.

This introduces complexity and special cases I don't want to manage...

> It is a pity that there is DWIMery going on in drive_init(), needing the 
> other options to be parsed already, otherwise drive_add() could have been 
> replaced by calls to drive_init().

I just mimic here already existing behavior of qemu.
drive_init() already parse parameter to extract options.
You can't make drive_init() before having parsed all parameters because
of parameters like "-hda f -hdachs x,y,z"

Regards,
Laurent
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