From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:54:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081114225434.GC19384@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226678209.9332.92.camel@blaa>
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > While we're at it, a section describing the monitor's capabilities so
> > we don't have to parse the _monitor's_ "help" output.... Oh, there I
> > go bike-shedding again :-)
>
> Well, if "info capabilities" isn't implemented, simply having it fail is
> fine.
Sure, but there are other monitor commands, and sub-options to those
commands, which come and go depending on QEMU version and development
branch. It would be good to describe those in a capabilities section,
as the only other option is trying the commands and discovering if
sub-options are supported that way. It's possible to send TAB to the
monitor to get the output of command line completions sometimes, but
that's quite an ugly thing for a management tool to have to do.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 16:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add cpu_list() for any targets that don't already have it Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Rename xxx_cpu_list() to cpu_xxx_list() Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 16:02 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 10:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-11-14 15:58 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-16 7:17 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-14 10:13 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-11-13 19:47 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 15:36 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 18:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing Paul Brook
2008-11-13 19:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-13 22:50 ` Paul Brook
2008-11-14 2:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 2:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-13 19:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 15:34 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command Blue Swirl
2008-11-14 2:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 16:09 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 3:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 3:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 15:56 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 22:54 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-11-14 15:51 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 22:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 10:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
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