Markus Armbruster wrote: > 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.
Fine. No concerns regarding overlaying IDs and path specifications as well? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
