Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] qemu-option: clean up id vs. list->merge_lists

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 10/11/20 09:29, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> As we will see below, there are exceptions where we reject
>> options that used to work.  Do we want that?
>
> I think that, as long as we gain in consistency, we do.  The special
> casing of "id" is a wart of the current parser and the less it shows 
> that "id" is treated specially, the best.
>
> Deprecating or downright rejecting working combinations is always
> walking a fine line, but here we're almost in https://xkcd.com/1172/ 
> territory.

I find it hard to disagree ;)