Re: [PATCH 0/4] qemu-storage-daemon: QAPIfy --chardev the stupid way

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 26/10/20 11:10, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Kevin's "[PATCH v2 0/6] qemu-storage-daemon: QAPIfy --chardev"
> involves surgery to the QAPI generator.  Some (most?) of it should go
> away if we deprecate the "data" wrappers due to simple unions in QMP.
> 
> Do we really need to mess with the code generator to solve the problem
> at hand?
> 
> 
> Let's recapitulate the problem:
> 
> * We want to QAPIfy --chardev, i.e. define its argument as a QAPI
>   type.

Considering that this is not 5.2 stuff at this point, I would like to
suggest again moving chardevs to -object, and ask you to evaluate that
option with the agreement that I do the work instead of you. :)

Paolo