Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: Support multiple CPU ranges on -numa option

[Anthony Liguori]

Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:

> Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Which is indistinguishable from a straight string property.  This means
>> it's impossible to introspect because the type is context-sensitive.
>>
>> What's more, there is no API outside of QemuOptsVisitor that can
>> actually work with "lists" of QemuOpts values.
>
> There is: qemu_opt_foreach()

I'm not sure I believe that you wrote that with a straight face... ;-)

>>      opt = g_malloc0(sizeof(*opt));
>>      opt->name = g_strdup(name);
>>      opt->opts = opts;
>
> No, no, no.  This makes ':' special, which means you can't have lists of
> anything containing ':'.  Your cure is worse than the disease.  Let go
> of that syntactic high-fructose corn syrup, stick to what we have and
> works just fine, thank you.

Yes, there *must* be special syntax.  If we're treating something
special, then we should indicate to the user that it's special.

Specifically, a list of integers should look distinctly different than
overriding a previously specified integer.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Then add suitable list accessor functions and error checks.