Copying Luiz. Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> writes:
> This series does not add new functionality. Adding a QMP monitor with > prettily formatted JSON output can be done as follows: > > $ qemu -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=control,pretty=on > > However, this is rather cumbersome, so this series (its first patch) > adds a shortcut in the form of the new command line option -qmp-pretty. > > Since the argument given to a monitor command line option (such as -qmp) > is parsed depending on its prefix and probably also depending on the > current phase of the moon, this is cleaner than trying to add a "switch" > to -qmp itself (in the form of "-qmp stdio,pretty=on"). Yet another "convenience" option *groan* Why can't we simply make -qmp set pretty=on and be done with it? It's a convenience option, i.e. meant for humans, and why would humans *not* want pretty=on?
