Programmingkid <[email protected]> writes:
> What does the function qmp_device_add() have a ret_data argument if it
> isn't used? This function is located in qdev-monitor.c.
QMP command handlers all implement the same interface:
void (*cmd_new)(QDict *params, QObject **ret_data, Error **errp);
Handlers of commands returning a value store the value to *ret_data.
Handlers of commands not returning a value (such as device_add) leave
ret_data alone.
We could require them to store NULL, but that would be easy to forget,
and usually catastrophic, so we don't.
