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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state vi
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization |
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Sun, 30 May 2010 14:36:23 +0200 |
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 11:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Currently breaks down when IDs contain '/', but permitting that is a
>>> bug. There may be more problems; the path lookup code is way too
>>> clever.
>>>
>> Indeed. Less can sometimes be more. My impression is that some of the
>> cleverness was motivated by lacking qtree completion for the HMP.
>>
>
> Can we disable abbreviations for QMP and only allow them for HMP?
>
> We can support that by adding a hidden argument to commands specifying
> whether the input comes from a human or machine. Abbreviations are
> dangerous if they become ambiguous; a human can recover while a machine
> can't.
>
Both QMP _and_ HMP suffer from ambitious and inconsistent addressing
schemes. Therefore, I'm more and more in favor of [1]. We just need to
add command line completion for option values, something that would be
beneficial for 'drive_add file=...' as well.
Jan
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/72152
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 15/15] QMP: Add support for buffer class to qmp python helper, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 15/15] QMP: Add support for buffer class to qmp python helper, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/22
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Markus Armbruster, 2010/05/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization,
Jan Kiszka <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Markus Armbruster, 2010/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Markus Armbruster, 2010/05/31
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/31
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Luiz Capitulino, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/24