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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, "Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.a@redhat.com>,
	mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH ] qemu-help: add category headlines
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:34:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52162F6D.7070605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uztstin.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>

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On 08/22/2013 08:13 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:

>>> +++ b/qdev-monitor.c
>>> @@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ static void qdev_print_category_devices(DeviceCategory category)
>>>      DeviceClass *dc;
>>>      GSList *list, *curr;
>>>  
>>> +    error_printf("%s devices:\n", qdev_category_get_name(category));
>>
>> Why is that an error? Shouldn't it go to stdout?
> 
> Output of -device help has always gone to stderr, and that has always
> annoyed me.  Just not enough to fix it.

Back when libvirt scraped -help output, changing it to use stdout would
be an incompatible change.  But now that libvirt uses QMP, I would also
welcome a change to use stdout (but also fall in the category of "not
enough of a bother for ME to fix it).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-22 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-22 12:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH ] qemu-help: add category headlines Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-08-22 14:00 ` Andreas Färber
2013-08-22 14:13   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-08-22 15:34     ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-08-22 17:18       ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-08-22 17:47         ` Markus Armbruster
2013-08-28  8:10 ` Marcel Apfelbaum

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