On 04/05/16 10:35, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > 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.
Ah, understood. Thanks. Laszlo
