Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/5] arm: qmp: add query-gic-capabilities interface

[Peter Xu]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:52:29AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> The rule against returning non-dictionaries exists to avoid interfaces
> that cannot evolve.  With a dictionary, you can evolve by adding
> members.
> 
> The rule does *not* forbid returning lists of dictionaries.  When a
> command fundamentally returns a list of things, being able to evolve the
> things suffices.

Ok.

> 
> query-gic-capabilities looks like it fundamentally returns a list of
> capabilities.  Returning ['GICCapability'] is just fine then.

I have posted v6 just as Eric has suggested. At least one advantage
is that it is easier to be extended (if needed) in the future, also
to follow the more-generic format to use dicts rather than
arrays. If you would not mind, I'll keep the dict interface there.

[...]

> In either case, drop the change to returns_whitelist.

Yep. Dropped in v6.

Thanks.

-- peterx