On 17/03/2016 15:17, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:55:52PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> >> On 17/03/2016 14:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>> On 17/03/2016 14:13, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> QEMU command line: >>>>> A. -fw-cfg RFQDN/PATH prepends usr/. So users will not get conflicts >>>>> with QEMU hardware >>>> >>>> Alternative: no need to prepend usr/, I think. >>> >>> I personally dislike telling user "do X". I don't see a reason not to be >>> friendly and do X. The rare case where users do not want X can be >>> easily enabled. >> >> I wouldn't include usr/ at all in the paths. The RFQDN recommendation >> is enough to avoid clashes with etc/ and opt/. > > Yes but then we need a blacklist.
Can't the blacklist be as simple as "org.qemu/*", plus some handling of legacy "etc/*"? We'd need special handling of "etc/*" anyway because SeaBIOS is using it (Gerd's usecase) and you certainly don't want to use org.qemu/unsupported/etc/XYZ hacks for that. Paolo
