[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] New Monitor command: 'info netdevices'

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 05/13/2010 09:18 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>   Hi there,
>
>   Miguel is working on converting 'info network' to QMP, but turns out that it's
> been quite difficult to maintain the exact same output.
>
>   The main problem seems to be the usage of the 'info_str' string, which some
> drivers (like tap, xen, vde, socket, etc) write arbitrary data into it. Then,
> it's difficult to maintain the same output when we store the same data in
> a qdict.
>
>   Another problem is wrt to maintaining the same ordering of devices, while
> there's a solution for this one, the code gets ugly.
>
>   We have to choices:
>
> 1. Convert it, anyway. Try our best not to break the output, even knowing
>     this is likely to happen
>
> 2. Play it safe and introduce a new 'info netdevices' command, which
>     just print one device per line
>
>   I think 2 is better.
>
> PS: As far as I know, 'info network' is not used by libvirt.
>    

I'd vote for (2).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori