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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,
	qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Lai Jiangshan <eag0628@gmail.com>, Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 04/08/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the only API to
>>> do something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is not the
>>> friendliest thing in the world to do to users.
>>
>> nmi is a fine name for something that corresponds to a real-life nmi
>> button (often labeled "NMI").
>
> Agree.

We could also introduce an alias mechanism for user friendly names, so
nmi could be used in addition of full path. Aliases could be useful
for device paths as well.