Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] simplify usb enabling logic and fix a Qemu crash

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 January 2015 at 13:29, Marcel Apfelbaum <address@hidden> wrote:
> Patch e79d5a6 ("machine: remove qemu_machine_opts global list") removed option
> descriptions from the -machine QemuOptsList to avoid repeating MachineState's 
> QOM properties.
>
> This resulted in a Qemu crash:
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -usb
> qemu-system-x86_64: util/qemu-option.c:387: qemu_opt_get_bool_helper:
> Assertion `opt->desc && opt->desc->type == QEMU_OPT_BOOL' failed.
> Aborted (core dumped)

> Based on the comments I will receive, I will continue to fix the options
> properties in the same way.

So does this mean that we still have other broken options? Do we
have a timescale for fixing them? I was hoping to be able to commit
a patchset fixing these regressions this week; if we can't do that
then we should probably revert the original changes instead :-(

-- PMM