[Qemu-devel] Re: Should QMP be RPC to internal C interfaces?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 08/31/2010 07:58 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:48:51 +0200
> Markus Armbruster<armbru@redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>      
>>> My position is that we aren't any closer to having compatible APIs
>>> then we were with the human monitor.  I think we need to focus on
>>> compatibility and that that has to be solved as the QEMU interface
>>> level.  I contend that it's not solvable at the QMP level.
>>>        
>> We've argued from day 0 every step along the way.  And here we are, one
>> year later, still arguing about the very basics.
>>
>> There's a fundamental disagreement.  I want to keep QMP the way it was
>> designed: supporting compatible evolution.  You want to remake it from
>> the ground up as RPC to internal C interfaces.
>>
>> It seems exceedingly unlikely to me that we can agree on the wisdom of
>> such a remake.  We can repeat and elaborate on our arguments for a
>> while, but let's face it: we want different things.
>>      
> Yes, that's the fundamental problem here.
>    

Okay, so what's the path forward?

I've proposed something that I think can get us out of the rut that 
we're in.  I've got code to support that.

Ignoring what I've proposed, what do we do differently?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>> I'm afraid I can't build you the thing you want.  The best I can offer
>> is to step out of the way and let you build it.
>>
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