On 9 June 2015 at 18:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Patch 3 is the one-liner to change the default-drive-type. Unfortunately
> just doing that alone will break commandlines that currently work
The other problem with taking patch 3 alone is that it completely
breaks everything, because:
* by default
On 9 June 2015 at 18:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 1) explicit if=foo drive manually wired up to a device is an error
>(and always diagnosed as such, not indirectly via it being double-used)
I had a look at getting this to be diagnosed properly, and the sketch
of the patch is:
1. add "bool auto_
Peter Maydell writes:
> This is a respin of the patchset I sent out last week; the
> only change v1->v2 is to drop the special casing of S390, as
> Christian confirmed it isn't needed. This collapses the old
> patches 2/3 into one.
>
> I'm going to use this cover letter as an opportunity to (a) h
Peter Maydell writes:
> On 9 June 2015 at 18:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Patch 3 is the one-liner to change the default-drive-type. Unfortunately
>> just doing that alone will break commandlines that currently work
>
> The other problem with taking patch 3 alone is that it completely
> breaks ev
On 20 June 2015 at 16:00, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Maydell writes:
>> I do definitely want to enable short-options for virt for 2.4...
>
> "Enable short options" = change virt's default block interface type from
> IF_IDE to IF_VIRTIO, I presume.
>
> "For 2.4" rules out solutions requiring
Peter Maydell writes:
> On 9 June 2015 at 18:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> 1) explicit if=foo drive manually wired up to a device is an error
>>(and always diagnosed as such, not indirectly via it being double-used)
>
> I had a look at getting this to be diagnosed properly, and the sketch
> of
Peter Maydell writes:
> On 20 June 2015 at 16:00, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Peter Maydell writes:
>>> I do definitely want to enable short-options for virt for 2.4...
>>
>> "Enable short options" = change virt's default block interface type from
>> IF_IDE to IF_VIRTIO, I presume.
>>
>> "For 2
