Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fw_cfg: RQFN rules, documentation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:14:48PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 04/04/16 17:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> >> ... My question is, do we need the "opt/" prefix at all (for the future,
> >> i.e., the non-historical cases)?
> >> Looking at the last discussion, I
> >> believe we converged on:
> >>
> >> - QEMU devs (future filenames): org.qemu/...
> >> - users:                        com.my_company/...
> >> - QEMU fw devs (future names):  org.tianocore.edk2.ovmf/...
> >>                                 org.seabios/...
> >> - QEMU fw devs hacking:         <root-prefix-to-strip>/...
> >>
> >> Did you find something unsafe about this (necessitating "opt/")?
> >>
> > 
> > The reason to use the opt/ prefix is to avoid warning
> > with QEMU 2.4 and 2.5.
> 
> Sorry, it's been a long day :), and I don't understand your answer. Can
> you please spell it out for me? How are QEMU 2.4 and 2.5 related to this
> discussion?
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo

People would want to use the same command line for QEMU 2.4, 2.5 and
2.6. If you use a prefix without opt with 2.4/2.5 you get a warning,
and if people get a warning from a valid command line, that's not nice, so
we want a prefix that does not cause a warning for these versions.

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