Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] hmp: Add info commands for preconfig

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:49:14AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
[...]
> > > People have been trying to add qom-get etc for quite a while (I tried a
> > > couple of years ago); it gets stuck in type display issues.  I've not
> > > directly seen a need for those other variants, but qom-get is something
> > > I'd love to have, still that's a job for another patch.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > 'info qom-tree' is very very useful when debugging qemu to see what the
> > > basic state we're building is; it's primarily for debugging.
> > 
> > I'm not at all opposed to enabling qom-tree, but I want its QMP building
> > blocks enabled as well then.  I think enabling their HMP buddies as well
> > would only make sense.
> 
> Hmm; OK, enabling qom-list, qom-get, qom-set, qom-list-types,
> qom-list-properties for qmp.
> qom-list and qom-set enabled in HMP.

I would prefer to avoid enabling qom-set in preconfig mode unless
we have a good reason for that.  I don't trust all existing
property setters to not crash or break if the machine is not
initialized yet.

-- 
Eduardo