[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/4] qmp/hmp: Add getfd_file monitor command

[Corey Bryant]

On 05/22/2012 04:26 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 16:02:19 -0400
> Corey Bryant<coreyb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>  wrote:
>
>>> But there's a small problem. Today getfd commands are closely tied to the
>>> Monitor. In Anthony's development tree, the getfd commands are tied to the
>>> new QMP server's session support.
>>>
>>> Asking you to integrate the new QMP server only to have the getfd command
>>> returning a simple integer would be too much, but at the same time I think
>>> you'll have to at least to break it from the monitor. This means moving its
>>> data structure away from the Monitor object and probably reworking the
>>> internal API used to get fds (ie. monitor_get_fd()).
>>>
>>> Shouldn't be hard, but you should be careful not to break external users.
>>>
>>
>> Just to verify, are you talking about moving the "fds" off the Monitor
>> struct?  -->  QLIST_HEAD(,mon_fd_t) fds;
>
> Yes.
>
>> Was this already moved away from the Monitor struct in Anthony's
>> development tree?  If not do you have a recommendation on where to move it?
>
> Yes, iirc it moved inside the new QMP server session support in Anthony's tree.
>
>> I think this would make more sense to me if I took a look at the getfd
>> code in Anthony's development tree.  Is this the correct tree?  I had
>> some issues cloning it.  https://github.com/aliguori/qemu-next.git
>
> The 'development' tree I'm referring to is the old glib branch in
> git://repo.or.cz/qemu/aliguori.git.
>

Hmm, it looks like fds is still on the Monitor struct in that branch. 
I'll do some more searching later unless you have anything else you can 
point me to.

-- 
Regards,
Corey