Re: [PATCH] scripts/qmp: delete 'qmp' script

[Markus Armbruster]

John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:

> This script has not seen a patch that was specifically for this script
> since it was moved to this location in 2013, and I doubt it is used. It
> uses "man qmp" for its help message, which does not exist. It also
> presumes there is a manual page for qmp-XXX, for each defined qmp
> command XXX. I don't think that's true.
>
> The format it expects arguments in is something like:
>
> block-dirty-bitmap-add --node=foo --name=bar
>
> and has no capacity to support nested JSON arguments, either.
>
> Most developers use either qmp-shell or socat (or pasting JSON directly
> into qmp stdio), so this duplication and additional alternate syntax is
> not helpful.
>
> Remove it. Leave a breadcrumb script just in case, to be removed next
> release cycle.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

Queued, thanks!