Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New Monitor command: 'info netdevices'
Luiz Capitulino lcapitul...@redhat.com writes: Hi there, Miguel is working on converting 'info network' to QMP, but turns out that it's been quite difficult to maintain the exact same output. The main problem seems to be the usage of the 'info_str' string, which some drivers (like tap, xen, vde, socket, etc) write arbitrary data into it. Then, it's difficult to maintain the same output when we store the same data in a qdict. Another problem is wrt to maintaining the same ordering of devices, while there's a solution for this one, the code gets ugly. We have to choices: 1. Convert it, anyway. Try our best not to break the output, even knowing this is likely to happen 2. Play it safe and introduce a new 'info netdevices' command, which just print one device per line I think 2 is better. There's also 3. Convert it anyway. Clean up the mess. Change the output. PS: As far as I know, 'info network' is not used by libvirt.
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New Monitor command: 'info netdevices'
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Markus Armbruster arm...@redhat.com wrote: There's also 3. Convert it anyway. Clean up the mess. Change the output. I agree. It seams to me that no one is concerned with any Monitor output change with this particular command. Plus, no one have shown any concerns about the problems I've found in net/socket.c reported previously either.
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New Monitor command: 'info netdevices'
On Fri, 14 May 2010 09:38:58 -0300 Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho miguel.fi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Markus Armbruster arm...@redhat.com wrote: There's also 3. Convert it anyway. Clean up the mess. Change the output. I agree. It seams to me that no one is concerned with any Monitor output change with this particular command. Plus, no one have shown any concerns about the problems I've found in net/socket.c reported previously either. Sending patches increases the chances someone will look into it.
[Qemu-devel] [RFC] New Monitor command: 'info netdevices'
Hi there, Miguel is working on converting 'info network' to QMP, but turns out that it's been quite difficult to maintain the exact same output. The main problem seems to be the usage of the 'info_str' string, which some drivers (like tap, xen, vde, socket, etc) write arbitrary data into it. Then, it's difficult to maintain the same output when we store the same data in a qdict. Another problem is wrt to maintaining the same ordering of devices, while there's a solution for this one, the code gets ugly. We have to choices: 1. Convert it, anyway. Try our best not to break the output, even knowing this is likely to happen 2. Play it safe and introduce a new 'info netdevices' command, which just print one device per line I think 2 is better. PS: As far as I know, 'info network' is not used by libvirt.
