Re: About '-readconfig' [Was: Re: [PULL 27/29] vl: deprecate -writeconfig]

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:24:10PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/03/21 17:03, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:05:24AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > The functionality of -writeconfig is limited and the code
> > > does not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect
> > > syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since
> > > qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping)
> > > so remove it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >   docs/system/deprecated.rst | 7 +++++++
> > >   qemu-options.hx            | 7 +------
> > >   softmmu/vl.c               | 1 +
> > >   3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm coming very late[1] to the discussion.  Will there be a
> > replacement for '-readconfig'?
> 
> -readconfig is not being deprecated, there will be some code new to
> integrate it with the changes I'm planning to option parsing.

I see; thanks for the clarification.  (I wasn't quite sure from the
2020 discussion thread.)

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/kashyap