[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 13:50 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > +static void do_info_capabilities(void)
> > +{
> > +    term_printf("[qemu]\n");
> > +    list_printf("accel", accel_names);
> > +    term_printf("arch=%s\n", TARGET_ARCH);
> > +    list_printf("cpu", cpu_names());
> > +    machines_printf();
> > +
> > +    term_printf("\n");
> > +
> > +    do_machine_capabilities();
> > +
> > +    term_printf("[devices]\n");
> > +    list_printf("bluetooth", bt_list_types());
> > +    list_printf("char", qemu_chr_list_types());
> > +    list_printf("drive_cache", drive_cache_types());
> > +    list_printf("drive_if", drive_if_types());
> > +    list_printf("graphics", graphics_list_types());
> > +    list_printf("network", net_client_types());
> > +#ifdef HAS_AUDIO
> > +    list_printf("soundhw", soundhw_list_types());
> > +#endif
> > +    list_printf("vga", vga_list_types());
> > +
> > +    term_printf("\n");
> >   
> 
> This makes me uneasy because it introduces a lot of dependencies that 
> are going to be hard to break.  I think this level of logic needs to be 
> more encapsulated in the various subsystems.

So, something like have [network], [block], [audio] etc. sections and
call out to network_capabilities() etc.?

Cheers,
Mark.