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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Show values and description when using "qom-


From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Show values and description when using "qom-list"
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 10:41:01 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13)

* Andreas Färber (address@hidden) wrote:
> Am 01.06.2018 um 17:39 schrieb Ricardo Perez Blanco:
> > For debugging purposes it is very useful to:
> >  - See the description of the field. This information is already filled
> >    in but not shown in "qom-list" command.
> 
> No objection on this part.
> 
> >  - Display value of the field.
> 
> That is by definition the qom-get operation, not qom-list. Just like the
> ls command does not show file contents, there's cat etc. for that. For
> debugging purposes we had a qom-tree (?) command that would combine
> both.

I'm not too bothered about distinguishing between the two commands;
but it would be nice - one reason I'm not too bothered is because we've
failed to get a qom-get in multiple years of trying.


>       There might be unmerged patches on qemu-devel related to display
> of certain data types.

Which ones?

Dave

> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Perez Blanco <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hmp.c          | 13 +++++++++++--
> >  qapi/misc.json |  6 ++++--
> >  qmp.c          |  7 +++++++
> >  qom/object.c   |  8 +++-----
> >  4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> [snip]
> 
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