What makes this 2.9 material is the crash bug fixed in PATCH 2 and the QAPI/QMP interface cleanups in PATCH 7+8.
This is RFC because: 1. To give you one more chance to ask for undocumented -drive driver=nbd usage compatibility [PATCH 08+09]. 2. Another round of sheepdog tests is still in progress (with Kashyap's help). Max, please have a close look at PATCH 11, I hope this is what you meant when you asked for "parsing @server". v2: * PATCH 01+02+04+05 unchanged. * PATCH 03 error message improved, blank line [Max] * PATCH 06 commit message typo [Max] * PATCH 07 new, factored out of old PATCH 7 * PATCH 08-10 updated, please re-review Markus Armbruster (10): nbd sockets vnc: Mark problematic address family tests TODO char: Fix socket with "type": "vsock" address io vnc sockets: Clean up SocketAddressKind switches block: Document -drive problematic code and bugs gluster: Prepare for SocketAddressFlat extension qapi-schema: SocketAddressFlat variants 'vsock' and 'fd' sockets: New helper socket_address_crumple() nbd: Tidy up blockdev-add interface squash! nbd: Tidy up blockdev-add interface sheepdog: Fix blockdev-add block.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- block/file-posix.c | 6 ++++ block/gluster.c | 28 +++++++++++------ block/nbd.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- block/nfs.c | 7 +++++ block/rbd.c | 6 ++++ block/sheepdog.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- block/ssh.c | 8 +++++ blockdev-nbd.c | 1 + chardev/char-socket.c | 9 ++++-- include/qemu/sockets.h | 11 +++++++ io/dns-resolver.c | 7 +++-- qapi-schema.json | 19 +++++------- qapi/block-core.json | 6 ++-- ui/vnc.c | 19 ++++++++---- util/qemu-sockets.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 16 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4