From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 14:36:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C025BC7.8070600@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C02212A.6060702@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 11:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Currently breaks down when IDs contain '/', but permitting that is a
>>> bug. There may be more problems; the path lookup code is way too
>>> clever.
>>>
>> Indeed. Less can sometimes be more. My impression is that some of the
>> cleverness was motivated by lacking qtree completion for the HMP.
>>
>
> Can we disable abbreviations for QMP and only allow them for HMP?
>
> We can support that by adding a hidden argument to commands specifying
> whether the input comes from a human or machine. Abbreviations are
> dangerous if they become ambiguous; a human can recover while a machine
> can't.
>
Both QMP _and_ HMP suffer from ambitious and inconsistent addressing
schemes. Therefore, I'm more and more in favor of [1]. We just need to
add command line completion for option values, something that would be
beneficial for 'drive_add file=...' as well.
Jan
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/72152
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 8:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/15] Basic device state visualization Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/15] Add dependency of JSON unit tests on config-host.h Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/15] qdev: Fix scanning across single-bus devices Jan Kiszka
2010-05-29 7:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-29 7:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-31 9:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/15] qdev: Allow device addressing via 'driver.instance' Jan Kiszka
2010-05-29 7:50 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-29 8:09 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-31 8:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/15] qdev: Convert device and bus lists to QTAILQ Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/15] qdev: Allow device specification by qtree path for device_del Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/15] qdev: Push QMP mode checks into qbus_list_bus/dev Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/15] monitor: Add completion for qdev paths Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/15] Add base64 encoder/decoder Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 13:59 ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-23 7:55 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-23 8:48 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-23 10:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/15] QMP: Reserve namespace for complex object classes Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/15] Add QBuffer Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/15] monitor: return length of printed string via monitor_[v]printf Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 18:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-05-23 7:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-23 8:44 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-23 10:03 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-23 10:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-29 8:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-29 8:14 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-30 8:26 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-30 12:36 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2010-05-31 8:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-31 8:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-31 11:07 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-31 11:11 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-24 12:51 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-05-24 20:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-24 20:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-24 20:35 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-24 21:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-24 22:12 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-24 22:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-25 7:23 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-25 13:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-25 13:19 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-25 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-25 13:41 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/15] QMP: Teach basic capability negotiation to python example Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 14/15] QMP: Fix python helper /wrt long return strings Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 15/15] QMP: Add support for buffer class to qmp python helper Jan Kiszka
2010-05-22 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/15] Basic device state visualization Blue Swirl
2010-05-23 7:55 ` Jan Kiszka
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