Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 12:59:26 +0200
> Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@web.de> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com>
>>
>> Ported commands that are marked 'user_only' will not be considered for
>> QMP monitor sessions. This allows to implement new commands that do not
>> (yet) provide a sufficiently stable interface for QMP use (e.g.
>> device_show).
> 
>  This is fine for me, but two things I've been wondering:
> 
>  1. Isn't a 'flags' struct member better? So that we can do (in the
>     qemu-monitor.hx entry):
> 
>         .flags = MONITOR_USER_ONLY | MONITOR_HANDLER_ASYNC,
> 
>     I'm not suggesting this is an async handler, just exemplifying multiple
>     flags.

Yes, can refactor this.

> 
>   2. Getting QMP handlers right in the first time might be difficult, so
>      we could have a way to mark them unstable. Maybe a different namespace
>      which is only enabled at configure time with:
> 
>          --enable-qmp-unstable-commands
> 
>      If this were possible, we could have device_show and any command we
>      aren't sure is QMP-ready working in QMP this way.

Do you suggest this as an alternative to this patch? Or an extension
later on? I have no opinion on this yet, I would just like to know how
to proceed for this series.

Jan

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