Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add hotplug opt-out option for devices.

[Gleb Natapov]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:07:48PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 18.11.2010 14:42, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> []
> >> For *that* use case well have to do a bit more like dynamically
> >> building the acpi table which indicates which slots are
> >> hot-pluggable and which are not.  Which indeed would be useful and
> >> would fix the windows xp offering me to unplug the piix chipset in
> >> the "savely remove hardware" menu ;)
> >>
> > Yes, but management has to specify to us somehow that certain device
> > is not hotpluggable and notunplug=no looks like good way to do it.
> 
> Can we _please_ get rid of this double negative and specify
> it as usual hotplug={on|off} ? :)  It does not matter if in
> the code it will be called nohotplug, the parameter parser
> function can perform the necessary negation.  nohotplug=no
> is just plain wrong ;)
> 
Don't care about name.

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                        Gleb.