On 04/26/2017 08:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:28:04AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 04/25/2017 10:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> When integrating the crypto support with qcow/qcow2, we don't
>>> want to use the bare LUKS option names "hash-alg", "key-secret",
>>> etc. We want to namespace them "luks-hash-alg", "luks-key-secret"
>>> so that they don't clash with any general qcow options at a later
>>> date.

>> Is this still needed, given your cover letter said you reworked things
>> to use a nested struct?  I'm still not convinced we need the complexity
>> of two different prefixes if we can instead reuse a common structure.
> 
> Yes, we still need this at the QemuOpts level.  We have the general
> purpose luks driver that has opts directly in the top level QAPI block
> driver options, vs the qcow2 integration, which now has the encryption
> options in a nested struct/union, rather than having an option prefix
> in the QAPI member names.

Fair enough.

> 
> At the QemuOpts level, this mean that the option names have changed
> from being 'luks-key-secret', 'aes-key-secret', to be "encrypt.key-secret"

But you'll want to update the commit message to match your new planned
names ;)

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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