Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@web.de> writes: > 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
[1] = abolish the clever abbreviations in path lookup. I agree we should do that.
