[Qemu-devel] "no-user" for properties (was: [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices)

[Markus Armbruster]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

>   Hi,
>
>> > See above.  We can't drop disable-modern.
>> 
>> Good point.  But this doesn't require it to be a supported device
>> option for users/management.  Maybe we should rename it to
>> "x-disable-modern" (but that's a separate discussion).
>
> I think it would be more useful to allow properties being tagged as
> "no-user", simliar to devices which we do not want be created via
> -device.

You mean user_creatable, which replaced
cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet, which used to be called no_user.

Yes, having something like that for properties would be a better user
interface than our current, lazy one "I'm showing you a bunch of stuff
you're supposed to ignore, and you're supposed to divine that from the
'x-' prefix".  Patches?

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