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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
	Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Valeriy Vdovin <valeriy.vdovin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12] qapi: introduce 'query-x86-cpuid' QMP command.
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:44:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97ce9800-ff69-46cd-b6ab-c7645ee10d2c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOpTY_qbsqh9Tf8LB3EOOi_gkREotdpUyuF3-d_sBFsof3-9KQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/08/2021 15.40, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:10 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/08/2021 20.56, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 04:22:42PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>> Is this intended to be a stable interface?  Interfaces intended just for
>>>> debugging usually aren't.
>>>
>>> I don't think we need to make it a stable interface, but I won't
>>> mind if we declare it stable.
>>
>> If we don't feel 100% certain yet, it's maybe better to introduce this with
>> a "x-" prefix first, isn't it? I.e. "x-query-x86-cpuid" ... then it's clear
>> that this is only experimental/debugging/not-stable yet. Just my 0.02 €.
> 
> That would be my expectation. Is this a documented policy?
> 

According to docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt :

  Any command or member name beginning with "x-" is deemed
  experimental, and may be withdrawn or changed in an incompatible
  manner in a future release.

  Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-11 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-28 12:54 [PATCH v12] qapi: introduce 'query-x86-cpuid' QMP command Valeriy Vdovin
2021-07-28 13:25 ` [PATCH-for-6.2 " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-07 14:22 ` [PATCH " Markus Armbruster
2021-08-10 18:56   ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-08-11  6:09     ` Thomas Huth
2021-08-11 13:40       ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-08-11 13:44         ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2021-08-11 13:58           ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-08-23 13:35             ` Markus Armbruster
2021-08-23 15:55               ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-08-24  6:48                 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-09-03  9:33                   ` Valeriy Vdovin

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