On 19/10/2020 23.04, John Snow wrote:
> This script has not seen a patch that was specifically for this script
> since it was moved to this location in 2013, and I doubt it is used. It
> uses "man qmp" for its help message, which does not exist. It also
> presumes there is a manual page for qmp-XXX, for each defined qmp
> command XXX. I don't think that's true.
> 
> The format it expects arguments in is something like:
> 
> block-dirty-bitmap-add --node=foo --name=bar
> 
> and has no capacity to support nested JSON arguments, either.
> 
> Most developers use either qmp-shell or socat (or pasting JSON directly
> into qmp stdio), so this duplication and additional alternate syntax is
> not helpful.
> 
> Remove it. Leave a breadcrumb script just in case, to be removed next
> release cycle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/qmp/qmp | 131 +++---------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>


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