Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/9] hmp: disable monitor in preconfig state

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:27:32 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:11:10PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > Ban it for now, if someone would need it to work early,
> > > one would have to implement checks if HMP command is valid
> > > at preconfig state.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > > v4:
> > >   * v3 was only printing error but not preventing command execution,
> > >     Fix it by returning after printing error message.
> > >     ("Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>)
> > > ---
> > >  monitor.c | 5 +++++
> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> > > index a4417f2..ea0ca57 100644
> > > --- a/monitor.c
> > > +++ b/monitor.c
> > > @@ -3104,6 +3104,11 @@ static void handle_hmp_command(Monitor *mon, const 
> > > char *cmdline)
> > >  
> > >      trace_handle_hmp_command(mon, cmdline);
> > >  
> > > +    if (runstate_check(RUN_STATE_PRECONFIG)) {
> > > +        monitor_printf(mon, "HMP not available in preconfig state\n");
> > > +        return;  
> > 
> > Not even the "cont" command?  It would be useful for testing
> > -preconfig.
> As someone already said on the list it's very easy to test with
> QMP nowdays, just use qmp-shell for that.
> So if someone isn't willing to learn to use QMP, one can write
> HMP part with proper white-listing.
> 
> I can extend error message like this:
> 
> "HMP not available in preconfig state, use QMP instead\n"

Sounds good enough to me.

-- 
Eduardo