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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] qom, qmp, hmp,
 qapi: create qom-type-prop-list for class properties
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On 01/26/2016 08:35 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:24:47AM +0300, Valentin Rakush wrote:
>> This patch adds support for qom-type-prop-list command to list object
>> class properties. A later patch will use this functionality to
>> implement x86_64-cpu properties.
>>

>=20
> We already have "-device <type>,help", and it uses a completely
> different mechanism for listing properties. There's no reason for
> having two arbitrarily different APIs for listing properties
> returning different results.

And the QMP counterpart of '-device <type>,help' is
'device-list-properties'.

>=20
> If qmp_device_list_properties() is not enough for you, please
> clarify why, so we can consider improving it.
>=20


--=20
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