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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] chardev: add hotplug support.
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5077FC61.50708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5077FBE6.2040107@redhat.com>

Il 12/10/2012 13:15, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
>> > In principle you're right, but I think it's ugly that adding another
>> > chardev argument needs changes in 3 places instead of just one.
> Hmm, I don't have to use the generated marshaller, right?  With direct
> access to the QDict I could just transform it into a QemuOpts.

That's exactly what I was suggesting. :P

> A new parameter wouldn't need code changes then.  And the code would be 
> reusable and probably also be simpler.  The qapi schema still needs
> an update though.

The QAPI schema is only used by the generated marshaller.

> HMP is more tricky, but I think we should sort QMP first.

HMP can just take a string, parse it into QemuOpts, and call a small
wrapper that calls qemu_chr_new_from_opts and returns errors via Error.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-12  9:25 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/7] serial device hotplug patch series Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] serial: split serial.c Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] serial: add pci variant Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] serial: add windows inf file for the pci card to docs Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] serial: add 2x + 4x pci variant Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] usb-serial: don't magically zap chardev on umplug Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] usb-serial: only expose device in guest when the chardev is open Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] chardev: add hotplug support Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12  9:40   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-12 10:23     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12 10:50       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-12 11:15         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12 11:17           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-10-12 12:37             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12 12:39               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12 13:12                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-12 16:54                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-12 17:08                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-15  6:51                 ` Lei Li
2012-10-15 11:09                   ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-16 13:23                     ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-10-15 17:36                   ` Eric Blake
2012-10-16 14:02                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-12  9:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/7] serial device hotplug patch series Paolo Bonzini

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