Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> writes: > Just while we're here, I'll be posting the following shortly: > > commit 82aff428155d469ab705294486cc26cb34947999 > Author: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> > Date: Fri Dec 23 11:30:45 2011 -0600 > > qdev: don't allow globals to be set by bus name > > This is technically a compatibility breaker. However: > > 1) libvirt does not rely on this (it always uses the driver name) > > 2) This behavior isn't actually documented anywhere (the docs just say > driver). > > 3) I suspect there are less than three people on earth that even know this is > possible (minus the people reading this message). > > So I think we can safely break it :-)
Go right ahead. We shouldn't tie ourselves up in knots over undocumented behavior, unless there's clear evidence of use.
