Am 12.11.2020 um 18:28 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben:
> This series introduces alias definitions for QAPI object types (structs
> and unions).
> 
> This allows using the same QAPI type and visitor even when the syntax
> has some variations between different external interfaces such as QMP
> and the command line.
> 
> It also provides a new tool for evolving the schema while maintaining
> backwards compatibility (possibly during a deprecation period).
> 
> The first user is intended to be a QAPIfied -chardev command line
> option, for which I'll send a separate series. A git tag is available
> that contains both this series and the chardev changes that make use of
> it:
> 
>     https://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin.git qapi-alias-chardev-v1
> 
> Kevin Wolf (6):
>   qapi: Add interfaces for alias support to Visitor
>   qapi: Remember alias definitions in qobject-input-visitor
>   qapi: Simplify full_name_nth() in qobject-input-visitor
>   qapi: Apply aliases in qobject-input-visitor
>   qapi: Add support for aliases
>   tests/qapi-schema: Test cases for aliases

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