Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] QMP: Introduce the documentation for query-netdev and info netdev

[Markus Armbruster]

Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:

> Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:26:27 -0300
>> Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> These commands show the information about active backend network devices.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  qemu-monitor.hx |  105 
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/qemu-monitor.hx b/qemu-monitor.hx
>>> index 9f62b94..8fc5ed6 100644
>>> --- a/qemu-monitor.hx
>>> +++ b/qemu-monitor.hx
>>> @@ -1674,6 +1674,111 @@ show the various VLANs and the associated devices
>>>  ETEXI
>>>  
>>>  STEXI
>>> address@hidden info netdev
>>> +show information about the current backend network devices
>>> +ETEXI
>>> +SQMP
>>> +query-netdev
>>> +------------
>>> +
>>> +Each device is represented by a json-object. The returned value is a 
>>> json-array
>>> +of all devices.
>>> +
>>> +Each json-object contains the following:
>>> +
>>> +- "id": the device's ID, must be unique (json-string)
>> 
>>  There were some talking about changing this to 'device. Jan, Markus?
>
> Only for qdev. Should be a different namespace here.

Huh?

We need to point to the NIC here, i.e. we need a unambigous name.
Device ID is fine, but it's optional.  Canonical qdev path?