Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH ] qemu-help: add category headlines

[Eric Blake]

On 08/22/2013 08:13 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:

>>> +++ b/qdev-monitor.c
>>> @@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ static void qdev_print_category_devices(DeviceCategory 
>>> category)
>>>      DeviceClass *dc;
>>>      GSList *list, *curr;
>>>  
>>> +    error_printf("%s devices:\n", qdev_category_get_name(category));
>>
>> Why is that an error? Shouldn't it go to stdout?
> 
> Output of -device help has always gone to stderr, and that has always
> annoyed me.  Just not enough to fix it.

Back when libvirt scraped -help output, changing it to use stdout would
be an incompatible change.  But now that libvirt uses QMP, I would also
welcome a change to use stdout (but also fall in the category of "not
enough of a bother for ME to fix it).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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