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authorLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>2010-08-20 16:42:31 -0300
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2010-08-22 17:11:06 -0500
commit05705ce2f8dfd8dcb5622b66ece21c9737a8502c (patch)
tree0417425c921fccf7462c0533db404e1097ff99e8 /qemu-monitor.hx
parent0ec0291d67ccfcc8a488d24341ee138902510ea3 (diff)
QMP doc: Add 'Stability Considerations' section
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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@@ -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