Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/15] monitor: Split monitor.c in core/HMP/QMP/misc

[Markus Armbruster]

Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> monitor.c mixes a lot of different things in a single file: The core
> monitor infrastructure, HMP infrastrcture, QMP infrastructure, and the
> implementation of several HMP and QMP commands. Almost worse, struct
> Monitor mixes state for HMP, for QMP, and state actually shared between
> all monitors. monitor.c must be linked with a system emulator and even
> requires per-target compilation because some of the commands it
> implements access system emulator state.
>
> The reason why I care about this is that I'm working on a protoype for a
> storage daemon, which wants to use QMP (but probably not HMP) and
> obviously doesn't have any system emulator state. So I'm interested in
> some core monitor parts that can be linked to non-system-emulator tools.
>
> This series first creates separate structs MonitorQMP and MonitorHMP
> which inherit from Monitor, and then moves the associated infrastructure
> code into separate source files.
>
> While the split is probably not perfect, I think it's an improvement of
> the current state even for QEMU proper, and it's good enough so I can
> link my storage daemon against just monitor/core.o and monitor/qmp.o and
> get a useless QMP monitor that parses the JSON input and rejects
> everything as an unknown command.
>
> Next I'll try to teach it a subset of QMP commands that can actually be
> supported in a tool, but while there will be a few follow-up patches to
> achieve this, I don't expect that this work will bring up much that
> needs to be changed in the splitting process done in this series.

I think I can address the remaining rather minor issues without a
respin.  Please let me know if you disagree with any of my remarks.

Thanks for helping out with the monitor code!  I know it's rather crusty
in places.

Dave, I'll take this through my tree, if you don't mind.