From patchwork Fri Aug 20 19:42:31 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [3/4] QMP doc: Add 'Stability Considerations' section Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:42:31 -0000 From: Luiz Capitulino X-Patchwork-Id: 62310 Message-Id: <1282333352-4152-4-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, armbru@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino --- qemu-monitor.hx | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-monitor.hx b/qemu-monitor.hx index 9c27b31..5c1da33 100644 --- a/qemu-monitor.hx +++ b/qemu-monitor.hx @@ -35,7 +35,29 @@ information on the Server command and response formats. NOTE: This document is temporary and will be replaced soon. -1. Regular Commands +1. Stability Considerations +=========================== + +The current QMP command set (described in this file) may be useful for a +number of use cases, however it's limited and several commands have bad +defined semantics, specially with regard to command completion. + +These problems are going to be solved incrementally in the next QEMU releases +and we're going to establish a deprecation policy for badly defined commands. + +If you're planning to adopt QMP, please observe the following: + + 1. The deprecation policy will take efect and be documented soon, please + check the documentation of each used command as soon as a new release of + QEMU is available + + 2. DO NOT rely on anything which is not explicit documented + + 3. Errors, in special, are not documented. Applications should NOT check + for specific errors classes or data (it's strongly recommended to only + check for the "error" key) + +2. Regular Commands =================== Server's responses in the examples below are always a success response, please @@ -1592,7 +1614,7 @@ HXCOMM This is required for the QMP documentation layout. SQMP -2. Query Commands +3. Query Commands ================= EQMP