Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] qemu-img: Document backing options

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 27.04.2017 um 17:36 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 04/26/2017 08:46 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> > I think originally the idea was to remove the individual special case
> > options in the long term in favour of the uniform -o. But I don't think
> > the short options have fallen out of use, so we can as well document
> > them again...
> >
> > Maybe we could change the implementation, however, so that the old
> > options are really just aliases for the respective -o version.
> 
> As in, a followup patch that adds a paragraph or two to the .texi file
> stating that '-B @var{backing_file}' is shorthand for '-o
> address@hidden'?

First and foremost, I meant in the C code where we have separate
variables for all the shorthand options and then need to handle both
ways explicitly in the code further down. Instead, -B could just
directly add a 'backing_file' key to a QemuOpts (and -o would do the
same instead of building a string that is parsed only later).

But the documentation change that you're suggesting is probably a good
idea as well.

Kevin

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