Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xl: support xend empty cdrom device syntax

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH 2/2] xl: support xend empty cdrom device 
syntax"):
> On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 16:22 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > +This is soley for compatibility with xend's syntax for empty cdroms,
> > +which is (for example) ",hdc:cdrom,r".
> 
> Perhaps we should tighten the special case to specifically only
> accept ,<vdev>:cdrom,<access> ? (and actually as it happens <access> has
> to be "r" too)

I don't think that's necessary.  We don't intend to introduce any
formats containing `:' so no ambiguity is introduced.

> Also perhaps it would be useful to always give the mapping to the
> non-deprecated syntax?

You mean to write the non-deprecated syntax in the document ?

Ian.

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