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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: agraf@suse.de, weidong.huang@huawei.com, stefanha@redhat.com,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, arei.gonglei@huawei.com,
	aliguori@amazon.com, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com,
	lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:00:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541896E9.4090806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541881EC.4090508@redhat.com>

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On 09/16/2014 12:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

>> Change legacy_name to point to a detailed human-readable
>> description of the type?
>> E.g. "Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, format: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"?
> 
> If libvirt can cope with
> 
> e1000.mac=str (Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, format: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF)

Isn't this output only available under -help? Libvirt only cares about
QMP listings of devices and their properties, so improving the human
interface should have no negative impact to the machine interface.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-15 14:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qom: add error handler for object alias property arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 15:56   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qom: add target object poniter for alias property in ObjectProperty arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qmp: print real legacy_name for alias property arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 17:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-15 15:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-15 17:38   ` Eric Blake
2014-09-15 17:45   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16  7:21     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16  7:53       ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16  8:36       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16  9:16         ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16  9:34           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 10:37             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 10:45               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 13:31                 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 16:26                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 16:27                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 16:56                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 18:31                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 19:01                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 19:01                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-17  6:02                             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 20:00                         ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-09-17  5:54                           ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-17 12:58                             ` Eric Blake
2014-09-16 14:32             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 14:36               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-17  2:31                 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22  8:26                 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-15 17:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-15 17:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16  0:42   ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16  8:38   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22  8:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-22  8:49   ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22  9:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22  9:33     ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 10:03       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 11:22         ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 12:06           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 12:34             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-22 12:55               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23  3:09                 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-23  8:39                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23  9:13                     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23  9:18                     ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-23  9:06                   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23  9:16                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-23  9:17                     ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 12:48             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 13:13             ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:24               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:36                 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:40                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:45                     ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:19             ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 11:43     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 13:08       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23  4:46         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-23 11:39         ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22  9:29   ` Markus Armbruster

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