Re: [PATCH 0/4] qemu-storage-daemon: QAPIfy --chardev the stupid way

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 26/10/20 11:10, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Kevin's "[PATCH v2 0/6] qemu-storage-daemon: QAPIfy --chardev"
>> involves surgery to the QAPI generator.  Some (most?) of it should go
>> away if we deprecate the "data" wrappers due to simple unions in QMP.
>> 
>> Do we really need to mess with the code generator to solve the problem
>> at hand?
>> 
>> 
>> Let's recapitulate the problem:
>> 
>> * We want to QAPIfy --chardev, i.e. define its argument as a QAPI
>>   type.
>
> Considering that this is not 5.2 stuff at this point, I would like to
> suggest again moving chardevs to -object, and ask you to evaluate that
> option with the agreement that I do the work instead of you. :)

Replacing -chardev with -object without regressing features would be
lovely.  One feature in particular: introspection.

If we manage to fully QAPIfy -object, we should be good.  I understand
Eduardo is cutting a path through the jungle.

I can offer assistance with bridging QAPI schema to QOM.