Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qapi: Drop qapi-gen --unmask option

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Now that we have useful access to the type name as a comment
> in the generated qapi-introspect.c, we don't need to regenerate
> code with a temporary -u option just to get at type names.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

I occasionally feed output of query-qmp-schema to ad hoc Python scripts.
My last one searched for object types containing non-string members
(directly or indirectly).  -u remains useful there, and having to
recompile is not a problem.  I'd prefer to keep it.