On 06/17/2015 05:01 AM, Kővágó Zoltán wrote: >>> Can you explain why the complexity is needed, i.e. why we can't just >>> require full paths always? >> >> Keeping the short names is required for -netdev backward compatibility. >> >> Restricting to short or full (i.e. something= or foo.bar.something=, but >> disallow bar.something=) should not be a problem. I'm not sure this >> simplifies things much though. We have to build the full path anyway, >> and I think bar.something= is just a convenient thing we get almost for >> free ... > > With the current implementation you can specify (see my previous patch) > in.try-poll=off in case of alsa. If we would need full paths, it would > look like opts.data.in.try-poll=off, which is probably not something we > want.
Elsewhere in the thread, it was suggested that you use a flat union. That would simplify the full path to opts.in.try-poll, rather than opts.data.in.try-poll. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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