From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: agraf@suse.de, weidong.huang@huawei.com, stefanha@redhat.com,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, arei.gonglei@huawei.com,
aliguori@amazon.com, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com,
lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:00:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541896E9.4090806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541881EC.4090508@redhat.com>
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On 09/16/2014 12:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Change legacy_name to point to a detailed human-readable
>> description of the type?
>> E.g. "Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, format: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"?
>
> If libvirt can cope with
>
> e1000.mac=str (Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, format: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF)
Isn't this output only available under -help? Libvirt only cares about
QMP listings of devices and their properties, so improving the human
interface should have no negative impact to the machine interface.
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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: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-15 14:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qom: add error handler for object alias property arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 15:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qom: add target object poniter for alias property in ObjectProperty arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qmp: print real legacy_name for alias property arei.gonglei
2014-09-15 17:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-15 15:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-15 17:38 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-15 17:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 7:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 7:53 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 8:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 9:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 9:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 10:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 10:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 13:31 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 16:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 16:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 16:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 18:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 19:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 19:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-17 6:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 20:00 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-09-17 5:54 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-17 12:58 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-16 14:32 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-16 14:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-17 2:31 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 8:26 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-15 17:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-15 17:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 0:42 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-16 8:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 8:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-22 8:49 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 9:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 9:33 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 10:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 11:22 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 12:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-22 12:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23 3:09 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-23 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23 9:13 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 9:18 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-23 9:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 9:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-23 9:17 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 12:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 13:13 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:36 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-22 13:45 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 13:19 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-09-22 11:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 13:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-23 4:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-23 11:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-22 9:29 ` Markus Armbruster
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