Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] qapi: support for keyworded variable-length argument list

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:40:25 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> Il 10/04/2012 16:30, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:27:43 +0200
> > Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> Il 10/04/2012 16:23, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> >>>>> Regarding device_add ? and device_add foo,? I would implement it as
> >>>>> separate QMP commands hooking into QOM, such as qom_list_types (taking
> >>>>> the superclass as an optional argument) and qom_properties.  But the
> >>>>> latter first needs static properties to move up from devices to objects.
> >>>>>  I'll take a look at that.
> >>> Have you?
> >>
> >> Yes, patches were on the list.  I'll submit v2 tomorrow or thursday.
> > 
> > Great.
> > 
> >>> I think that for device_add foo,? we could introduce 
> >>> qom-list-type-properties.
> >>> Seems simple if limited to devices, not sure how to make it generic 
> >>> though.
> >>
> >> With those patches you can make it generic.
> > 
> > Cool, what about device_add ?, any recommendations?
> 
> That's easier, you can just list non-abstract types with TYPE_DEVICE
> superclass (note that's a macro).

By using qom-list-types? The problem is how to export fields like 'no_user'
in QMP.