Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] chardev: add hotplug support.

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 17/10/2012 17:26, Eric Blake ha scritto:
> On 10/17/2012 04:09 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> This patch adds chardev_add and chardev_remove monitor commands.
>>
>> They work similar to the netdev_{add,del} commands.  The hmp version of
>> chardev_add accepts like the -chardev command line option does.  The qmp
>> version expects the arguments being passed as named parameters.
>>
>> chardev_del just takes an id argument and zaps the chardev specified.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
>> ---
> 
>> +##
>> +# @chardev-add:
>> +#
>> +# Add a chardev
>> +#
>> +# @id: the chardev's ID, must be unique
>> +# @backend: the chardev backend: "file", "socket", ...
> 
> This still needs to be an enum.
> 
>> +# @path: file / device / unix socket path
>> +# @name: spice channel name
>> +# @host: host name
>> +# @port: port number
>> +# @server: create socket in server mode
>> +# @wait: wait for connect
>> +# @ipv4: force ipv4-only
>> +# @ipv6: force ipv6-only
>> +# @telnet: telnet negotiation
> 
> But this part looks nicer.

Note that this schema is just for documentation.  It is not used at QEMU
build time.

Paolo