Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Reject duplicate and anti-social device IDs

[Markus Armbruster]

Paul Brook <address@hidden> writes:

>> Also require IDs to start with a letter to provide for possible future
>> extensions.
>
> I'd go further than that, and require that user specified IDs match
> [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]*

I talked with Dan (cc'ed) to make sure we don't trample on existing
libvirt usage without need.  What about

[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-:.]*

i.e. your regexp plus ':' and '.' in the second bracket?