Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> writes:
> On 06/07/2010 09:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> This adds a new QMP command called query-netdev to provide information
>> about the available netdev backends in the QEMU binary. There is no
>> existing '-netdev ?' support, but if there was, this would obsolete it
>>
>> The data format looks like
>>
>> [
>> {
>> "name": "user",
>> "props": [
>> {
>> "name": "type",
>> "help": "net client type (nic, tap etc.)",
>> "type": "string"
>> },
>>
>
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to expose the help text. That bakes it
> into the ABI which seems bad.
Bah. Tell clients "this part is informative and not ABI, and you'll die
a horrible death if you parse it", then change it a couple of times to
drive the point home.
