On Mittwoch, 20. April 2022 10:33:38 CEST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
Hi Daniel,
> If we're going to conditionalize this, then we really ought to be
> address it fully, because 'native' is also platform specific.
Good point. I can do that as well.
> IOW, we would end up needing something more li
On Mittwoch, 20. April 2022 10:33:38 CEST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
Hi Daniel,
> That all said, the patch itself is OK, because for human targetted
> interactive usage, it is desirable for --help to be representative
> of what's available.
>
> IOW, I'm just complaining about the commit message j
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:19:31PM +0200, Dirk Müller wrote:
> This allows $qemu --help runtime configure checks for detecting
> the host support.
Note: detecting features by parsing --help output is something that
is explicitly a non-goal for QEMU. The only supported interface for
detecting featu
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:19:31PM +0200, Dirk Müller wrote:
> This allows $qemu --help runtime configure checks for detecting
> the host support.
--help is human-parseable, and thus not stable text. Relying on it
for detecting host support is not always ideal, but anything is better
than nothing
This allows $qemu --help runtime configure checks for detecting
the host support.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Müller
---
block/file-posix.c | 4
qemu-nbd.c | 4
qemu-options.hx| 6 +-
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file
