[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/10] Introduce 'info netdevices' with QMP support

[Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <miguel.filho@gmail.com>]

The VLANClientState structure has the member info_str, a simple string that
is filled with information about NIC devices and used on monitor calls.

There is no coherent formatting of this string by all the NIC devices,
making it difficult to parse and represent this information over QMP.

To make the transition to QMP safe, we leave the current 'info network' command
as is, and introduce a new one: 'info netdevices'.

Patch 01 adds a new function qdict_to_qstring().

Patch 02 adds the function qemu_nic_format_info_dict and adds a new 
QDict member to VLANClientState named info_dict.

Patches 03-09 updates all devices to feed information into the new QDict
info_dict.

Patch 10 introduces 'info netdevices'.

These series of patches were made on top of the qmp-unstable tree[1].

Regards,

Miguel

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/qmp-unstable.git