Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/9] qapi: add socket address types

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 02/10/2012 17:27, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
>>> > > Wouldn't it be cleaner to pass a list of port numbers? We could have:
>>> > > 
>>> > >  *port-list: [ 'int' ]
>>> > >  *service: 'str'
>> > 
>> > A list of ports doesn't work too well for say 5900-5999.  I think the
>> > port + count is the simplest.
> True, but consider making it a union then, so that we can have service
> as a string and port as an integer.

But then how would you name the containing union?

In the end this is a hack for VNC or little more... any change will
propagate all over the place due to QemuOpts and qemu-char using "to".
It is an optional argument, I don't think it's worth much time. :)

Paolo