On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:48:40AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 06:42:09PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >> FW CFG's primary user is QEMU, which uses it to expose configuration > >> information (in the widest sense) to Firmware. Thus the name FW CFG. > >> > >> FW CFG can also be used by others for their own purposes. QEMU is > >> merely acting as transport then. Names starting with opt/ are reseved > >> for such uses. There is no provision, however, to guide safe sharing > >> among different such users. > >> > >> Fix that, losely following QMP precedence: names should start with > >> opt/RFQDN/, where RFQDN is a reverse fully qualified domain name you > >> control. > >> > >> Based on a more ambitious patch from Michael Tsirkin. > >> > >> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> > >> Cc: Gabriel L. Somlo <so...@cmu.edu> > >> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> > >> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> > > > > Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > > > > I don't think there's any rush to get this into 2.6, though. > > If no one beats me to it, I'll apply this after 2.6 is out. > > The patch touches only documentation and help text, i.e. it's as safe as > it gets. I'd like to have it in 2.6. > > Since both of the two patched files have no maintainer, I intend to post > a pull request myself, assuming nobody objects.
Acked-by: Gabriel Somlo <so...@cmu.edu> Thanks much! --Gabriel
