On 09/16/2015 05:18 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>>>>>> Perhaps it could be as simple as >>>>>>> >>>>>>> { 'struct': 'BlockdevOptionsNBD', >>>>>>> 'data': { 'addr: 'SocketAddress', 'export': 'str' } } >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem is that: NBD doesn't use the fd. >>>>> >>>>> Is that fundamental, or just a matter of implementation? >>> >>> Question still open. > > Question still open.
Dan's patches didn't address it... > Long term, I'd like to see us get rid of the conversions between > QAPI-generated types and QDict / QemuOpts. > > Short term, you need to co-evolve the QDict-based code such as > nbd_config() with the QAPI interfaces. ...but DO affect the short-term, by starting the conversion over to using the QAPI type more fully: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg04383.html > > Keeping the QAPI interface clean is more important than minimizing the > implementation work, because we're free to mess with the implementation, > but releasing a QAPI interface makes it ABI, so we better get it right. Especially once the QAPI interface is actually used by a QMP command (there are places where we are using qapi internally for ease in command line handling, but not exposing the structures through QMP yet). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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