[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] QMP: Introduce the documentation for query-qdm

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:07:09AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 16:34:22 -0300
> Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <miguel.filho@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Possible values for "type" are defined in the patch on the
> > qdev_property_type_to_string() function. To spot them in the current
> > code, hw/qdev.c:77:
> > 
> > enum PropertyType {
> >     PROP_TYPE_UNSPEC = 0,
> >     PROP_TYPE_UINT8,
> >     PROP_TYPE_UINT16,
> >     PROP_TYPE_UINT32,
> >     PROP_TYPE_INT32,
> >     PROP_TYPE_UINT64,
> >     PROP_TYPE_TADDR,
> >     PROP_TYPE_MACADDR,
> >     PROP_TYPE_DRIVE,
> >     PROP_TYPE_CHR,
> >     PROP_TYPE_STRING,
> >     PROP_TYPE_NETDEV,
> >     PROP_TYPE_VLAN,
> >     PROP_TYPE_PTR,
> >     PROP_TYPE_BIT,
> > };
> > 
> > So it is a mix of json-(string|integer|boolean). It seams to me that a
> > device_add using QMP will use just use strings. Need to confirm that.
> 
> There are integers too.
> 
> Daniel, can you clarify how libvirt is going to use this member?

We're not actively planning to use this field. When I wrote the patch
originally, I was aiming to provide the maximim semantically useful
information possible, rather than just the generic json data type.
This ensures that this is fully self-documenting.


> Maybe we could have something like this:
> 
>  "type": { "qdev": "macaddr", "qmp": "string" }

Daniel
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