Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/14] Fix qapi mangling of downstream names

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> This series makes it possible to use downstream extensions
> (such as __com.redhat_xyz) and temporary names (such as x-foo)
> in every position possible in QAPI schemes, with added tests
> that the generated code still compiles.
>
> There's still some things we could do to the qapi generator,
> such as normalizing struct member names and C manglings and
> creating named implicit types up front on the initial parse
> rather than multiple times in each backend.  But that should
> wait until existing pending patches have landed, to minimize
> rebase churn.
>
> v2 was here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-04/msg01300.html
>
> v3 includes several more of Markus' original RFC series, splits
> up my work into smaller pieces, incorporates fixes suggested by
> Markus, and rebases on top of the pending v8 qapi drop nested
> structs series.  The series has changed enough from v2 that it
> is not worth showing git backport-diff statistics (as only patch
> 1 survived intact).

Applied to my qapi-next branch, thanks!