Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> writes: > 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.
You're right; we chickened out of switching the parser, and I suppressed the memory.
