On 12/31/2009 12:46 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I wasn't worried about that, only the increased code duplication.
I wasn't thinking there would be an info ioapic command but rather a
generic device-info command that would work with any qdev device. No
code duplication (in fact, much, much less in the long term).
Machine printing isn't going to work. The information needs to be
formatted to be legible and bit fields decoded. Some field's
interpretation may depend on the value of others. In some case machine
printing of vmstate will show you the history of that devices live
migration bug fixes in addition to its state.
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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
