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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" <ehabkost@redhat.com>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>, "jan.kiszka@siemens.com" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, "dlaor@redhat.com" <dlaor@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>, Vincent@gnu.org

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:56:26 -0500
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:

> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> Why does the emission format have to be perfect in order to start 
> >> refactoring the monitor interfaces?  There is a large bit of this 
> >> work effort that has nothing to do with output format.  I don't want 
> >> to block that work effort.
> >
> > It does not, and modifying the internals to support a serializable 
> > object model can be done in parallel to the json flamewar.
> 
> Great.  So Luiz, do you understand and agree with the proposed changes 
> to your series?

 Yes, only the lists and dictionaries types are not very clear
to me.

 Should command handlers return data in those types to the
monitor and thus get printed by it?

 Detailed is welcome, anyway.