Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.2 2/2] QMP/input-send-event: make console parameter optional

[Eric Blake]

On 11/07/2014 05:41 AM, Amos Kong wrote:
> The 'QemuConsole' is the input source for handler, we share some
> input handlers to process the input events from different QemuConsole.
> 
> Normally we only have one set of keyboard, mouse, usbtablet, etc.
> The devices have different mask, it's fine to just checking mask to
> insure that the handler has the ability to process the event.
> 
> I saw we try to bind console to handler in usb/dev-hid.c, but display
> always isn't available at that time.
> 
> If we have multiseat setup (as Gerd said), we only have 'problem' in
> this case. Actually event from different devices have the same effect
> for system, it's fine to always use the first available handler
> without caring about the console.
> 
> For send-key command, we just pass a NULL for console parameter in
> calling qemu_input_event_send_key(NULL, ..), but 'input-send-event'
> needs to care more devices.
> 
> Conclusion:
> Generally assigning the special console is meanless, and we can't

s/meanless/meaningless/

> directly remove the QMP parameter for compatibility.
> 
> So we can make the parameter optional. The parameter might be useful
> for some special condition: we have multiple devices without binding
> console and they all have the ability(mask) to process events, and
> we don't want to use the first one.
> 
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> Cc: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qapi-schema.json |  4 ++--
>  qmp-commands.hx  |  4 ++--
>  ui/input.c       | 15 +++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
> index a1573d8..367fb8e 100644
> --- a/qapi-schema.json
> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -3249,7 +3249,7 @@
>  #
>  # Send input event(s) to guest.
>  #
> -# @console: Which console to send event(s) to.
> +# @console: #optional console to send event(s) to.

Might be worth mentioning that the default is the first available
console.  The change is safe from back-compat perspective.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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