Re: [PATCH 0/2] ide, vl: turn -win2k-hack into a property on IDE devices

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:24 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> On another hand, these aren't used often these days.  This particular
> option isn't necessary with windows 2000, at least with two different
> kits of it which I have locally.  So finding the thing when you actually
> need it (if it gets moved elsewhere) will be difficult.
>
> On yet another, the code to handle this stuff is small enough and does
> not require much to maintain, -- at least for now, maybe in future it
> will be more difficult.

Yes, I agree. The purpose of these patches is to keep the
implementation of the options separate from the implementation of the
workaround, and that makes things even simpler.

Paolo