Re: [Qemu-devel] Dropping the MONITOR_CMD_ASYNC

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/12/2011 06:26 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Nope, it has to be dropped.
>
> Commands using CMD_ASYNC may fail in arbitrary ways because of the way
> error reporting is done.  This is an unfixable problem until we
> eliminate all uses of qerror_report().
>

Why don't we eliminate all uses for qerror_report() then?  Breaking our
interfaces instead seems like a horrible idea.

> We need to take the hit here and force the command to always fail. 
> libvirt will need logic to use a different command with new versions. 
> If we coordinate this with the libvirt folks, we can make the
> transition as smooth as possible.

I thought we've outgrown this.  If we provide an interface, we should
support it.

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