Re: [Qemu-devel] x-input-send-event marked as experimental

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> writes:

> Gerd,
>
> commit df5b2adb7398d71016ee469f71e52075ed95e04e
> Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Nov 25 14:54:17 2014 +0100
>
>     input: move input-send-event into experimental namespace
>     
>     Ongoing discussions on how we are going to specify the console,
>     so tag the command as experiental so we can refine things in
>     the 2.3 development cycle.
>
> So what is the problem here again? 
> input-send-event can send an input event to a 
> particular console, so that (the console number)
> has to be specified somehow.
>
> But, its already there, you can specify the console:
>
> -{ 'command': 'input-send-event',
> +{ 'command': 'x-input-send-event',
>    'data': { '*console':'int', 'events': [ 'InputEvent' ] } }
>
> So what its waiting for to be moved out of experimental status?

See

* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg03425.html
  Message-ID: <87zjbgvbp0.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
  and the thread around it

* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg02935.html
  Message-ID: <1447319343.1400.39.camel@redhat.com>

* commit 513e7cd input: Document why x-input-send-event is still
  experimental