Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/4] qmp/hmp: Add getfd_file monitor command

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 22 May 2012 16:02:19 -0400
Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > But there's a small problem. Today getfd commands are closely tied to the
> > Monitor. In Anthony's development tree, the getfd commands are tied to the
> > new QMP server's session support.
> >
> > Asking you to integrate the new QMP server only to have the getfd command
> > returning a simple integer would be too much, but at the same time I think
> > you'll have to at least to break it from the monitor. This means moving its
> > data structure away from the Monitor object and probably reworking the
> > internal API used to get fds (ie. monitor_get_fd()).
> >
> > Shouldn't be hard, but you should be careful not to break external users.
> >
> 
> Just to verify, are you talking about moving the "fds" off the Monitor 
> struct?  --> QLIST_HEAD(,mon_fd_t) fds;

Yes.

> Was this already moved away from the Monitor struct in Anthony's 
> development tree?  If not do you have a recommendation on where to move it?

Yes, iirc it moved inside the new QMP server session support in Anthony's tree.

> I think this would make more sense to me if I took a look at the getfd 
> code in Anthony's development tree.  Is this the correct tree?  I had 
> some issues cloning it.  https://github.com/aliguori/qemu-next.git

The 'development' tree I'm referring to is the old glib branch in
git://repo.or.cz/qemu/aliguori.git.