Re: QAPI sync meeting

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 07/10/21 12:01, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 
>    * -chardev: I have patches that QAPIfy the option based on aliases,
>      getting rid of the old handwritten parser that is inconsistent with
>      QMP in non-obvious ways and replacing it with translation to QMP
>      (both using aliases and a little C code) that makes the differences
>      obvious.
> 
>      First posted in November 2020, more details in the cover letter:
>      https://patchew.org/QEMU/20201112175905.404472-1-kwolf@redhat.com/
> 
>      Later versions (not yet posted as a series because I'm waiting for
>      aliases) also make -chardev accept JSON syntax, which is what
>      libvirt really wants to use.

I'm still not sure about this...  It's an awful lot of code if the 
aliases are only used by -chardev, and I'd rather use -object/object-add 
for chardevs if that's at all possible.

Paolo