Am 07.09.2023 um 11:33 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben: > Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> writes: > > Am 04.09.2023 um 18:25 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben: > >> I still think for user creatable devices we'd be better off just > >> mandating the use of JSON syntax for -device and thus leveraging > >> the native JSON array type. This patch was the quick fix for the > >> existing array property syntax though. > > > > I agree, let's not apply this one. It puts another ugly hack in the > > common QOM code path just to bring back the old ugly hack in qdev. > > Since -device supports both JSON and dotted keys, we'd still offer a > (differently ugly) solution for users averse to JSON.
I'm afraid this is not true until we actually QAPIfy -device and change the non-JSON path to the keyval parser. At the moment, it still uses qemu_opts_parse_noisily(), so no dotted key syntax. Kevin
