Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/10] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Fri, 10 May 2013 17:40:20 +0200
Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 05/10/13 17:30, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Thu,  9 May 2013 21:20:52 -0500
> > Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> These patches apply on top of qemu.git master, and can also be obtained 
> >> from:
> >> git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git qapi-native-lists
> >>
> >> Sending this now since a number of series have popped up in the past that
> >> wanted this, and Amos has some pending patches (query-mac-tables) that rely
> >> on this as well.
> >>
> >> These patches add support for specifying lists of native qapi types
> >> (int/bool/str/number) like so:
> >>
> >>   { 'type': 'foo',
> >>     'data': { 'bar': ['int'] }}
> >>
> >> for a 'bar' field that is a list of type 'int',
> >>
> >>   { 'type': 'foo2',
> >>     'data': { 'bar2': ['str'] }}
> >>
> >> for a 'bar2' field that is a list of type 'str', and so on.
> >>
> >> This uses linked list types for the native C representations, just as we do
> >> for complex schema-defined types. In the future we may add schema 
> >> annotations
> >> of some sort to specify a more natural/efficient array type for the C
> >> representations, but this should serve the majority of uses-cases for now.
> > 
> > Series looks good to me. I'd drop patch 06/10 if it's not required
> > for this series though.
> 
> I guess:

I see, although it's still a separate issue (which I'd personally fix
in a different series).

> 
> On 05/10/13 04:20, Michael Roth wrote:
> > v1->v2:
> >  * fixed do-nothing float tests in pre-existing code and updated new
> >    unit tests accordingly (Laszlo)
> >  * added a fix for a bug in json parser that was exposed by above change
> 
> Laszlo
>