Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 30/30] qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes

2015-11-09 Thread Markus Armbruster
Eric Blake writes: > We have toyed on list with the idea of a future extension to > QMP of teaching it to be case-insensitive (the user could > request command 'Quit' instead of 'quit', or could spell a > struct field as 'CPU' instead of 'cpu'). But for that to be > a practical extension, we can

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 30/30] qapi: Forbid case-insensitive clashes

2015-11-05 Thread Eric Blake
We have toyed on list with the idea of a future extension to QMP of teaching it to be case-insensitive (the user could request command 'Quit' instead of 'quit', or could spell a struct field as 'CPU' instead of 'cpu'). But for that to be a practical extension, we cannot break backwards compatibili