From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, afaerber@suse.de,
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] qemu-help: improve -device command line help
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:04:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E803E6.5010507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E7F3FB.1020005@redhat.com>
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On 07/18/2013 07:56 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 18/07/2013 10:27, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto:
>> Running qemu with "-device ?" option returns ~145 lines.
>> It is hard to manage understanding the output.
>>
>> Theses patches aim to partially solve the problem by dividing the devices
>> into logical categories like "Network/Display/..." and sorting them by it.
>
> Nice! :) An unexpected benefit of moving all the hw/ files to separate
> per-type directory.
>
> I checked libvirt and this should not break it.
Agreed - libvirt uses QMP queries so as to be immune to changes in
'-device help' output, since qemu 1.3 or so.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 8:27 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] qemu-help: improve -device command line help Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 8:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] qemu-help: Sort devices by logical functionality Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 14:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-18 14:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-18 14:42 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 14:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-18 14:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-18 15:23 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 15:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-21 8:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-21 13:57 ` Ronen Hod
2013-07-18 8:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] devices: Associate devices to their logical category Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 13:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] qemu-help: improve -device command line help Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-18 14:02 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 15:04 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-07-21 12:09 ` Andreas Färber
2013-07-21 12:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-29 20:24 ` Anthony Liguori
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2013-07-18 9:06 Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-29 20:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-29 20:42 ` Eric Blake
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