Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/4] fw_cfg: insert fw_cfg file blobs via qemu cmdline

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/06/2015 09:28, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > I don't feel overly strongly about it; just "mechanism, not policy"
> > > looks like a good tradition (well, good excuse anyway).
> > 
> > Most users never see warnings. We ship it, we support it.
> > If we don't want to support it, let's not ship it.
> 
> Then we should rm -rf half of QEMU. :)
> 
> Seriously, I agree wholeheartedly with not baking policy into QEMU.  A
> lot of QEMU command-line hacking really is just a shortcut to avoid
> continuous recompilation.  I don't think it's reasonable to expect that
> it constitutes a stable API.
> 
> Paolo

Still, reserving part of the namespace for QEMU internal use
is *not* policy, it's just good engineering.

How about we forbid adding files under "etc/" ?

That would be enough to avoid conflicts.


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