Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 08/11] QMP: Port balloon command

[Dor Laor]

On 06/23/2009 09:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I wanted to respond to the top level, but here's what I see as the 
> potential merge plan:
>
> 1) Make all commands return a value
> 2) Add a mechanism to mark commands as being "structured"

This seems like a good idea.
My original intent was to make the monitor interface a library.
Various qemu users can link it with their favorite option: 
json/dbus/rpm/xml/soap ;)

So, we should first harden up the monitor commands like 1),2), and 
refactor the current
monitor interface as a library above it.

A second or parallel phase is to implement a machine readable interface 
library.

> 3) Get the structured printfs in order.
> 4) Merge
>
> I won't want QMP to be exposed as a usable interface until all 
> commands are converted.  This means holding off on the last patch I 
> think.  I don't think we'll get QMP for 0.11.  I think it's likely 
> going to be a 0.12 feature.  However, I'd like to start merging this 
> series as soon as humanly possible.  I think it's already pretty close.
If we push 'monitor standardization' into 0.11, the version will support 
future
implementations of the protocol.

Regards,
Dor