Avi Kivity wrote: > On 05/29/2010 11:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> Currently breaks down when IDs contain '/', but permitting that is a >>> bug. There may be more problems; the path lookup code is way too >>> clever. >>> >> Indeed. Less can sometimes be more. My impression is that some of the >> cleverness was motivated by lacking qtree completion for the HMP. >> > > Can we disable abbreviations for QMP and only allow them for HMP? > > We can support that by adding a hidden argument to commands specifying > whether the input comes from a human or machine. Abbreviations are > dangerous if they become ambiguous; a human can recover while a machine > can't. >
Both QMP _and_ HMP suffer from ambitious and inconsistent addressing schemes. Therefore, I'm more and more in favor of [1]. We just need to add command line completion for option values, something that would be beneficial for 'drive_add file=...' as well. Jan [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/72152
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