Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Clean up bogus default boot order

[Markus Armbruster]

Alexander Graf <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14.06.2013, at 13:40, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>
>> This is on top of "[PATCH v3 00/16] -boot and -no-fd-bootchk fixes",
>> so it's protected by the tests there.
>> 
>> The first five patches are admittedly related to the stated purpose of
>> this series pretty much only by "I can't stand perpetuating this
>> stupid crap".  Max Filippov and Peter Maydell already cleaned up
>> Xtensa and ARM the same way.
>
> PPC patches are:
>
>   Acked-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
>
> As for the functional change of defaulting boot_order to NULL on most
> boards, I'm reasonably indifferent. I suppose the purpose of the
> rename was to detect all cases where it gets used, so it _should_ be
> safe to default to NULL.

Exactly!  The rename forces me to examine every machine that actually
uses the default boot order.  I null the default only for machines that
don't.

Apart from that, the rename also makes names more consistent :)