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From: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu] qmp: Add qom-list-properties to list QOM object properties
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:33:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1516714431.31897.6.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180123124922.GB14832@umbus>

On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 23:49 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> It's also occurred to me that making a spapr specific approach to this
> might not be quite as horrible as I initially thought.  The
> capabilities table is global (and immutable) so coding up a
> "get-spapr-caps" qapi entry point which encodes the stuff there into
> json giving the names and allowed values of each cap would be fairly
> straightforward.

OTOH, qom-list-properties is a superset of device-list-properties
so it could be used instead of it if supported; plus it would
expose properties of machines which are not also capabilities and
properties of non-pSeries machine types. There could be value in
taking the more generic approach.

> Accurately retreiving default values would be trickier, not sure if
> that's important or not.

Not sure. I think it's okay not to expose that information, since
there are other areas where defaults are not exposed and so all
libvirt can do is document that not *explicitly* setting a feature
will result in the hypervisor default, whatever that might happen
to be, being enforced.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-23 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-19  5:09 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu] qmp: Add qom-list-properties to list QOM object properties Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-19  5:19 ` David Gibson
2018-01-19  6:15   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-19  6:22     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-19 14:34     ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-23 10:08       ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-23 11:20         ` David Gibson
2018-01-23 12:03           ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-01-23 12:49             ` David Gibson
2018-01-23 13:33               ` Andrea Bolognani [this message]
2018-01-31  9:03               ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-01-31 17:22                 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-01-31 17:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-02-02  2:02   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-02-02  7:37     ` Markus Armbruster
2018-02-05  3:30       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-02-07 12:18         ` Andrea Bolognani
2018-02-21  3:36 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2018-02-21 10:01   ` Paolo Bonzini

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