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Lunev" , Kashyap Chamarthy , Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel , Eduardo Habkost , Christophe de Dinechin , =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= Lureau , John Snow , Dominik Csapak Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Paolo Bonzini writes: > On 03/02/20 10:54, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> Types are documented as above; however types other than link<> and=20 >>> child<>, which are QAPI types, can be user-defined types (structs,=20 >>> enums) and this is not included in (1). >> Specifically, three of four kinds of type names are documented: >> primitive, child, scalar. The fourth kind is not, and it can be >> anything. It need not be a QAPI type name. In any case, you just have >> to know what the type name means. > > It is not enforced, but it is supposed to be only QAPI type names > (primitive or not), child or link. It's not even documented. Actual names include "struct tm", "guest statistics", and (my favourite) "struct".