Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 0/5] console: qom-ify & extent screendump monitor command

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:

> On 04/25/2013 03:17 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:55:40 -0000
>> Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Applied.  Thanks.
>> 
>> Really? This contains the screendump extension we agreed on not doing.
>
> I tend to agree that we should revert the QMP change;

Again, broken notification.  This wasn't merged.  Sorry for the noise.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> without a way to
> introspect whether the '*device' parameter exists, libvirt can't use it,
> and we already agreed that we really need something better anyways with
> regards to fd passing, image format selection, the ability to limit to
> one head at a time, and so forth.  I'd rather defer it all to 1.6 when
> we can get the entire design right, than to have 1.5 expose something
> that can't be reliably used and which might change based on designing
> the rest of the improvements.
>
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