From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32B0C04E87 for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 13:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C435213F2 for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 13:34:42 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 9C435213F2 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSiR7-0002pD-Sc for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 09:34:41 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSiPS-0001tF-M2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 09:32:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSiPQ-0004ps-Sp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 09:32:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSiPO-0004nN-PL; Mon, 20 May 2019 09:32:54 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 665F530C1215; Mon, 20 May 2019 13:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn-117-208.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.208]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B6695C221; Mon, 20 May 2019 13:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 15:32:36 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf To: Max Reitz Message-ID: <20190520133236.GG5699@localhost.localdomain> References: <20190515075917.24980-1-mreitz@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190515075917.24980-1-mreitz@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.46]); Mon, 20 May 2019 13:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] =?utf-8?q?=5BPATCH_0/2=5D_qemu-img=2Etexi=3A_Provid?= =?utf-8?q?e_more_info_on_some_commands=E2=80=99_output?= X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Am 15.05.2019 um 09:59 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > Most qemu-img subcommands that have (optional) JSON output don=E2=80=99= t > describe the structure of their JSON output -- but having a fixed, > well-known output structure kind of is the point of having JSON output > at all. Therefore, patch 1 in this series makes every such command not= e > which QAPI type their JSON output has in the qemu-img man page. (The > exception to this is the map subcommand, which does not emit a > QAPI-typed object. It already has a description of the structure of it= s > output object, though.) >=20 > That should be enough to thoroughly explain the machine-readable output= . > But we can also do better for the human-readable output: qemu-img info > emits quite a bit of information, and not all of it is self-explanatory= . > In patch 2, I=E2=80=99ve tried to provide some potentially missing expl= anation. Thanks, applied to the block branch. Kevin