Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 09/16] block: Add QMP support for streaming to an intermediate layer

[Markus Armbruster]

Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 11.10.2016 um 16:30 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben:
[...]
>> 3) QEMU could advertise that feature to the client. This is probably
>> simpler than trying to figure it out from the API. I guess that's the
>> idea of 'qmp_capabilities'?
>
> I think that was the idea, though it was never used. If we had used it,
> I'm not sure how long the capabilities list would be today. :-)

QMP capabilities are for changes in the QMP protocol, not for changes in
commands, events and types.  The protocol has been good enough so far,
thus no capabilities.