On 28/10/20 12:46, Kevin Wolf wrote: > I don't think this is the right thing to do at this point. Making more > use of QOM is an orthogonal problem and would only make solving this one > harder.
Making more use of QOM will make this a non-problem. You'll just use object-add and -object and, when you figure out the QOM schema, it will just work. Paolo > The problem we have and we're trying to solve is that we have > chardev-add (which has a QAPI schema) and -chardev (which doesn't). We > want to get an option that is described by the schema, doesn't duplicate > things and is still convenient to use. > > Whether this option starts with -chardev or with -object doesn't really > make much of a difference. The QAPI schema you need behind it will be > almost or even exactly the same.
