* Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > On 11 March 2014 19:46, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * Michael S. Tsirkin (m...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > >> Shouldn't we prevent the unsupported option from > >> appearing in qemu output though? > >> Otherwise how does user know whether it works? > > > > I'll make it spit a warning if you try and enable it on a platform > > that doesn't have a way of doing it; ifdef all the option parsing > > would just make everywhere messy and in the end we defined it > > as a debug option. > > When would you want to not enable it? If this is > purely for debug convenience why not just have "always > set thread names if the platform allows it" ?
See the original thread; there was some undefined worry that some tools somewhere might break if it was enabled. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-01/msg03819.html Dave > thanks > -- PMM -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
