Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] QMP: Introduce the documentation for query-netdev and info netdev

[Markus Armbruster]

Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden> writes:

> These commands show the information about active backend network devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-monitor.hx |   53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-monitor.hx b/qemu-monitor.hx
> index f6a94f2..14a0ba1 100644
> --- a/qemu-monitor.hx
> +++ b/qemu-monitor.hx
> @@ -1674,6 +1674,59 @@ show the various VLANs and the associated devices
>  ETEXI
>  
>  STEXI
> address@hidden info netdev
> +show information about the current backend network devices
> +ETEXI
> +SQMP
> +query-netdev
> +----------------
> +
> +Each device is represented by a json-object. The returned value is a 
> json-array
> +of all devices.
> +
> +Each json-object contain the following:
> +
> +- "id": the device's ID, must be unique (json-string)
> +- "vlan": QEMU's internal vlan identification. Only present if the device is
> +  attached to a VLAN (json-int, optional)
> +- "peer": ID of the frontend device when on a 1:1 relationship (json-string,
> +  optional)
> +- "info": json-object containing the configuration information about the 
> device.

Didn't we agree to have two separate query commands, one for net devices
on VLANs, and another one for the rest?

> +
> +Note: The supported device information is the same one supported by the 
> '-net'
> +command-line argument, which are listed in the '-help' output or QEMU's 
> manual.

Not sure a pointer to -help suffices here.

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