Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] chardev: add file chardev support to chardev-add (qmp)

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 10/01/2013 10:10, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
> 
>> > Do we need the complexity of supporting fd passing explicitly?
>> > 'getfd' is less than ideal compared to 'add-fd', and for 'add-fd',
>> > we would pass via "path":"/dev/fdset/nnn".  That is, why do we need
>> > to bend over backwards to support an alternate syntax for fd
>> > passing in a new command, when we can already use existing commands
>> > to get fd passing for free?
> Oh, didn't know that.  Was just following what SocketAddress does and
> what Paolo suggested.  It isn't needed indeed.

Yeah, I hadn't followed fdset either.  We really need more documentation.

Paolo