Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/06/2015 08:52 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>>> qapi-code-gen.txt already claims that types, commands, and
>>> events share a common namespace; set this in stone by further
>>> documenting that our introspection output will never have
>>> collisions with the same name tied to more than one meta-type.
>>>
>
>>> For these reasons, we simply document that clients should not
>>> rely on any particular order of items in introspection output.
>>> And since it is now a documented part of the contract, we have
>>> the freedom to later rearrange output if needed, without
>>> worrying about breaking well-written clients that were already
>>> aware that they had to do linear searches.
>> 
>> Well, any kind of search that doesn't rely on sorting.  Suggest to drop
>> the "that were already..." clause.  Happy to do that on commit.
>
> I don't see that phrase dropped in your v1 pull request. Worth fixing?

Fixed in PULL v2, thanks!

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