Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] i386: "unavailable-features" QOM property

[Jiri Denemark]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 18:06:03 +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2019 10:56:17 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 03:35:37PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > > Would this unavailable-features property contain only canonical names of
> > > the features or all possible aliases of all features? For example,
> > > "tsc-adjust" can also be spelled as "tsc_adjust". When calling
> > > query-cpu-model-expansion, we have a way to request all variants by
> > > running full expansion on the result of a previous static expansion. Can
> > > we get something like this for unavailable-features too?
> > 
> > I'd like to avoid that, and refer only to the canonical names.
> 
> Can we deprecate aliases to avoid confusion in future?
> (there aren't that many of them that used pre-QOM name format)

If you come up with a way libvirt could use to detect which name it
should use when talking to QEMU...

Jirka