From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TakUA-0007dn-6V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:51:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TakU6-0005lQ-72 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:51:18 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TakU5-0005lI-VL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:51:14 -0500 Message-ID: <1353405070.2180.40.camel@fatty> From: Alexander Larsson Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:51:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87r4noehaa.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> References: <1353330711-20207-1-git-send-email-alexl@redhat.com> <50AB3631.2080000@redhat.com> <87r4noehaa.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qxl: Export "mode" as a property List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On tis, 2012-11-20 at 10:48 +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > [Cc'ing Anthony because this could be of general QOM interest] > > Gerd Hoffmann writes: > > > On 11/19/12 14:11, Alexander Larsson wrote: > >> This way you can easily tell from qemu if the guest is using > >> a qxl driver or not. > > > > Device properties are for configuration, not inspection. > > Read-only properties could serve fine as generic inspection mechanism. Yeah, it strikes me as more natural than a non-generic extension like "info spice".