Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Make the help info more friendly in monitor

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:16:19 +0100
Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Wayne Xia <address@hidden> wrote:
> > During my test, I found it inconvenient when I type "help" or "help info",
> > because the information was shown without orderliness. This patch would just
> > show the help information in sorted order.
> >
> > For eg:
> > (qemu)help
> > acl_add
> > acl_policy
> > acl_remove
> > acl_reset
> > acl_show
> > balloon
> > block_passwd
> > ...
> > the command list is sorted.
> >
> > Wayne Xia (1):
> >  Sort the help info shown in monitor
> >
> >  monitor.c |   97 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  1 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> This is a nice idea.  We could keep hmp/qmp-commands.hx in sorted
> order but that prevents us from keeping related commands together in
> those files (and the generated documentation?).  So sorting at
> run-time makes sense.

The info help command reads from hmp-commands.hx and the info_cmds array,
I would prefer to get those sorted.