On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:35:25AM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> > wrote: > > > > > I think what would make a lot of sense though is to add a section to > > the man page somewhere, that explains which ID refers to which > > software from which vendor. Also, it might make sense to add a new > > switch to the tool, that dumps the table of known identifiers plus > > some description. > > > > Fair enough. I will see if I can do that. Would it be ok to add > appropriate aliases to existing terms, virtualbox - oracle and hyperv - > microsoft and mark the vendor names as deprecated? That way we retain This would break compatibility, because systemd-detect-virt would have to start returning different strings.
Zbyszek > compatibility while having the consistency (this is more than just about > being pretty!) that everything is named after the technology and not the > mismash of vendors names (oracle, microsoft) and technology names (kvm...) > in a list. I will write up some patches to see if I can implement this > cleanly and we will see how it goes. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
