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From: | Thomas Huth |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw: Improve the machine description string |
Date: | Fri, 6 May 2022 12:03:07 +0200 |
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On 06/05/2022 09.23, Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Fri, May 06 2022, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:The machine name already contains the words "ccw" and "virtio", so using "VirtIO-ccw" in the description likely does not really help the average user to get an idea what this machine type is about. Thus let's switch to "Virtual s390x machine" now, since "virtual machine" should be a familiar term, and "s390x" signals that this is about 64-bit guests (unlike S390 which could mean that it is 31-bit only).Do we foresee any s390x machines that don't default to ccw virtio devices in the future?
I don't think so. And if we ever get another type of para-virtualized machine, we still can change the description again to be more specific to distinguish them.
Also expand "v" to "version, since this makes it easier to uses/"version/"version"/ :)
Thanks!
this macro also with non-numeric machine names in downstream. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> --- hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c index 8fa488d13a..11a942a325 100644 --- a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c +++ b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ bool css_migration_enabled(void) { \ MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_CLASS(oc); \ ccw_machine_##suffix##_class_options(mc); \ - mc->desc = "VirtIO-ccw based S390 machine v" verstr; \ + mc->desc = "Virtual s390x machine (version " verstr ")"; \ if (latest) { \ mc->alias = "s390-ccw-virtio"; \ mc->is_default = true; \
Thomas
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