Re: -chardev with a JSON argument (was: [PATCH] chardev: introduce 'reconnect-ms' and deprecate 'reconnect')

Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > This is a little off-topic: > > So I wanted to make libvirt use the new parameter to stay ahead > deprecation. I've applied this patch to qemu, dumped capabilities and > pretty much expected a bunch of test cases in libvirt fail as they'd be > using a deprecated field as libvirt is supposed to validate everything. > > And the test suite passed unexpectedly. I've dug further and noticed > that for some reason libvirt doesn't still use JSON parameters for > -chardev (which is the pre-requisite for validation). > > I've also noticed that at some point I attempted to convert it over > witnessed by having an (unused) capability named QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV_JSON > that I've introduced. > > My questions are: > 1) Does '-chardev' accept JSON identical to 'chardev-add' QMP command? Sadly, no. How badly do you want it?