Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] sockets: helper functions for qemu.

[Jamie Lokier]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >Maybe it would be sufficient to just have it added as a flag to the
> >arg in question though, eg -serial tcp:localhost:123,ipv4 rather
> >than a global -ipv4 flag
> >  
> 
> Yes, this would be much nicer.  I think having the options as a global 
> is likely to confuse users.

Yes.  In those few cases where you need to restrict it, a global
option would be wrong too: if you have multiple interfaces, and you
need to override the automatic default for some reason, there's a fair
chance you don't need that on every interface.

-- Jamie