From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56375 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODwAL-0003F8-HC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 04:59:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODwAK-0003Rm-87 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 04:59:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODwAJ-0003RY-TO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 04:59:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF1055A.5020600@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:59:06 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6e14cbfe3764b46d9bd6d2db61d41fd9c85dd54e.1273843151.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> <4BED9358.1000106@codemonkey.ws> <20100516173809.GA29814@shareable.org> <4BF0E6CD.7090909@redhat.com> <4BF0F2FD.90408@siemens.com> <4BF0F437.6040302@redhat.com> <4BF0F6D3.8020803@siemens.com> <4BF0FA13.10808@redhat.com> <4BF10481.7030900@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF10481.7030900@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Add QBuffer List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Anthony Liguori , Juan Quintela , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Markus Armbruster , Luiz Capitulino On 05/17/2010 11:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> The names of fields are also type information. >> > Not in the case of device_show. The clients have no idea of the vmstate > structures before they were transfered. Granted, that will likely remain > a special case in the QMP command set. > For that use case, I agree. Maybe we should send both the parsed and unparsed information. But if the client isn't going to interpret the object and only display it, then there is no need for __class__? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.