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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Fix machine class names to use the "-mach


From: Cornelia Huck
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Fix machine class names to use the "-machine" suffix
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:23:01 +0200

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:54:26 -0700
Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:

> The machine class names in QEMU are not consistent today. Some of them use the
> "-machine" suffix, but some use completely different naming conventions. This
> makes it difficult to implement machine class lookup without iterating through
> the whole list of machine classes.
> 
> This series changes all machines to use "<machine name>-machine" as the class
> name, so we can simply use object_class_by_name() in the future to lookup
> machine classes. (This was not done yet because it will also require some
> changes in the way aliases are handled.)

I've played around with the s390 machines a bit and it seems to do the
right thing using the same commandlines as before.

One question: info qom-tree shows the new machine class names - is
there anybody (other than a human looking at it) making use of that
information?




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