Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 May 2013 17:41, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yep, that raises (once again) the question of dynamic introspection -
> there's a difference between the maximum amount of information known at
> compile time, and the subset of enum values that are actually usable at
> runtime.  This list is static (all known architectures)

It's not really static though for practical purposes. The user
still has to be able to cope with "I know about architecture foo
but it's not in the list" (if talking to an older qemu) or
"the list contains architecture bar which I don't know about"
(if talking to a newer qemu). I think the only thing we really
need to avoid is changing the name of an existing architecture?

thanks
-- PMM