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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] full introspection support for QMP
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Il 02/07/2013 20:21, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> >
>> > Indeed, I wouldn't mind a one-time pass over qapi-schema.json to make it
>> > follow a more rigid format if that made it easier to use it as-is with
>> > less post-processing.  It won't be very nice to backport such a
>> > conversion, but I don't know how much distros are planning on
>> > backporting introspection in the first place.
> We consume the schema in QEMU.  No reason for us to consume it in a
> different format than libvirt.

One reason could be that qapi-schema.json, as written, lacks a schema
that can be expressed itself using QAPI.

Paolo