Re: [RFC v3 6/6] hmp: add x-debug-virtio commands

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 5/7/20 6:49 AM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This patch implements HMP version of the virtio QMP commands
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>

Most HMP commands do not use '-' in their name.  Also, HMP doesn't 
promise api compatibility; so we could just name this 'info virtio' or 
'debug_virtio' without an x- prefix, with no real loss.

> ---
>   Makefile                |   2 +-
>   Makefile.target         |   7 +-
>   docs/system/monitor.rst |   2 +
>   hmp-commands-virtio.hx  | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hmp-commands.hx         |  10 +++
>   hw/virtio/virtio.c      | 193 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   include/monitor/hmp.h   |   4 +
>   monitor/misc.c          |  17 ++++
>   8 files changed, 391 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 hmp-commands-virtio.hx
> 

> +SRST
> +``x-debug-virtio`` *subcommand*
> +  Show various information about virtio.
> +
> +  Example:
> +
> +  List all sub-commands::
> +
> +    (qemu) x-debug-virtio
> +    x-debug-virtio query  -- List all available virtio devices
> +    x-debug-virtio status path -- Display status of a given virtio device
> +    x-debug-virtio queue-status path queue -- Display status of a given virtio queue
> +    x-debug-virtio queue-element path queue [index] -- Display element of a given virtio queue

Oh, you're introducing it as a metacommand (like 'info' already is) with 
several subcommands.  Still, naming it 'virtio' instead of 
'x-debug-virtio' would make sense to me, even though the underlying QMP 
commands are (correctly) in the x-debug- namespace.

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