On 26/10/20 11:10, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Kevin's "[PATCH v2 0/6] qemu-storage-daemon: QAPIfy --chardev" > involves surgery to the QAPI generator. Some (most?) of it should go > away if we deprecate the "data" wrappers due to simple unions in QMP. > > Do we really need to mess with the code generator to solve the problem > at hand? > > > Let's recapitulate the problem: > > * We want to QAPIfy --chardev, i.e. define its argument as a QAPI > type.
Considering that this is not 5.2 stuff at this point, I would like to suggest again moving chardevs to -object, and ask you to evaluate that option with the agreement that I do the work instead of you. :) Paolo