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qemu-char: Saner naming of memchar stuff & doc fixes

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New device, has never been released, so we can still improve things
without worrying about compatibility.

Naming is a mess.  The code calls the device driver CirMemCharDriver,
the public API calls it "memory", "memchardev", or "memchar", and the
special commands are named like "memchar-FOO".  "memory" is a
particularly unfortunate choice, because there's another character
device driver called MemoryDriver.  Moreover, the device's distinctive
property is that it's a ring buffer, not that's in memory.  Therefore:

* Rename CirMemCharDriver to RingBufCharDriver, and call the thing a
  "ringbuf" in the API.

* Rename QMP and HMP commands from memchar-FOO to ringbuf-FOO.

* Rename device parameter from maxcapacity to size (simple words are
  good for you).

* Clearly mark the parameter as optional in documentation.

* Fix error reporting so that chardev-add reports to current monitor,
  not stderr.

* Replace cirmem in C identifiers by ringbuf.

* Rework documentation.  Document the impact of our crappy UTF-8
  handling on reading.

* QMP examples that even work.

I could split this up into multiple commits, but they'd change the
same documentation lines multiple times.  Not worth it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Markus Armbruster
2013-02-06 21:27:24 +01:00
committed by Anthony Liguori
parent 5c230105cd
commit 3949e59414
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@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ void hmp_system_powerdown(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_cpu(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_memsave(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_pmemsave(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_memchar_write(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_memchar_read(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_ringbuf_write(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_ringbuf_read(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_cont(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_system_wakeup(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
void hmp_inject_nmi(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);