Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] update names in option tables to match with actual command-line spelling

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 17/03/2014 09:23, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
> > This patch makes all names in option table to match with actual
> > command-line spelling, it will be helpful when we search in option
> > tables.
>
> As discussed in [*], the QemuOptsList member name values are ABI:
> changing them can break existing -readconfig configuration files.  If we
> decide breaking ABI is okay here (big if!), we need to document it
> prominently in the commit message.

I think in some (rare) cases breaking the rule is okay.  For example, 
the pending conversion of "-m" to QemuOpts uses "memory".

However, I don't think adding "-opts" is a good thing to do.  Which one 
is most readable?

   [m]
      size = 128M
      max = 512M

   [memory]
      size = 128M
      max = 512M

   [memory-opts]
      size = 128M
      max = 512M

I'm for including this patch in 2.0.

Paolo