Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] QOM type names and QAPI

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 08:15, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> 2. We have some 550 type names containing '.'.  QAPI's naming rules
>    could be relaxed to accept '.', but keyval_parse()'s can't.
>
>    Aside: I wish keyval_parse() would use '/' instead of '.', but it's
>    designed to be compatible to the block layer's existing use of
>    dotted keys (shoehorned into QemuOpts).

> Of the type names containing '.' or '+'[**], 293 are CPUs, 107 are
> machines, and 150 are something else.  48 of them can be plugged with
> -device, all s390x or spapr CPUs.
>
> Can we get rid of '.'?

On this one, my vote would be "no". "Versioned machine names
include the QEMU version number" is pretty well entrenched,
and requiring users to remember that when they want version 4.2
they need to remember some other way of writing it than "4.2"
seems rather unfriendly. And 550 uses of '.' is a lot.

thanks
-- PMM