Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 12/15] monitor: Add basic device state visualization

[Avi Kivity]

On 05/29/2010 11:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Currently breaks down when IDs contain '/', but permitting that is a
> > bug.  There may be more problems; the path lookup code is way too
> > clever.
> >      
> Indeed. Less can sometimes be more. My impression is that some of the
> cleverness was motivated by lacking qtree completion for the HMP.
>    

Can we disable abbreviations for QMP and only allow them for HMP?

We can support that by adding a hidden argument to commands specifying 
whether the input comes from a human or machine.  Abbreviations are 
dangerous if they become ambiguous; a human can recover while a machine 
can't.

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