On Tue, 12/19 16:45, Peter Xu wrote:
> Here "oob" stands for "Out-Of-Band".  When "allow-oob" is set, it means
> the command allows out-of-band execution.
> 
> The "oob" idea is proposed by Markus Armbruster in following thread:
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg02057.html
> 
> This new "allow-oob" boolean will be exposed by "query-qmp-schema" as
> well for command entries, so that QMP clients can know which command can
> be used as out-of-band calls. For example the command "migrate"
> originally looks like:
> 
>   {"name": "migrate", "ret-type": "17", "meta-type": "command",
>    "arg-type": "86"}
> 
> And it'll be changed into:
> 
>   {"name": "migrate", "ret-type": "17", "allow-oob": false,
>    "meta-type": "command", "arg-type": "86"}
> 
> This patch only provides the QMP interface level changes.  It does not
> contains the real out-of-band execution implementation yet.
> 
> Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>


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