Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] qapi: rename prefix QEVENT to Q_EVENT

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:09:40 -0600
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10/28/2013 11:22 PM, Wenchao Xia wrote:
> 
> >>
> >   MONITOR_EVENT seems tide to monitor too much, since it will be present
> > in qapi-schema, I think Q_EVENT_ or QMP_EVENT_KIND would be better?
> 
> I don't have a strong enough opinion on the bikeshed color.
> MONITOR_EVENT implies the event is always associated with delivery over
> a monitor; but how else would you receive an event without a monitor?

Today QMP is tied to the Monitor, but one of the goals of the QAPI is
to untangle them. This would allow for a separate QMP server, which
could have QMP only features like session support.