On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 15:03, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On 13/4/23 17:07, Peter Maydell wrote: > > --- a/qemu-options.hx > > +++ b/qemu-options.hx > > > > -``-chardev file,id=id,path=path`` > > +``-chardev file,id=id,path=path[,input-path=input-path]`` > > Log all traffic received from the guest to a file. > > > > ``path`` specifies the path of the file to be opened. This file will > > be created if it does not already exist, and overwritten if it does. > > ``path`` is required. > > I find "path" vs. "input-path" confusing and would rather rename it as > "output-path" for consistency; or at least add an alias. > Possibly deprecating the "path" alias. Maybe matter of taste...
The much more common use is the preexisting one of "write the output to the file". I don't particularly want to break all the uses of that just because we added this option. thanks -- PMM
