Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Make the help info more friendly in monitor

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Wayne Xia <address@hidden> wrote:
> During my test, I found it inconvenient when I type "help" or "help info",
> because the information was shown without orderliness. This patch would just
> show the help information in sorted order.
>
> For eg:
> (qemu)help
> acl_add
> acl_policy
> acl_remove
> acl_reset
> acl_show
> balloon
> block_passwd
> ...
> the command list is sorted.
>
> Wayne Xia (1):
>  Sort the help info shown in monitor
>
>  monitor.c |   97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This is a nice idea.  We could keep hmp/qmp-commands.hx in sorted
order but that prevents us from keeping related commands together in
those files (and the generated documentation?).  So sorting at
run-time makes sense.

Stefan