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Re: [PATCH v11 1/2] docs: improve qcow2 spec about extending image heade
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Alberto Garcia |
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Re: [PATCH v11 1/2] docs: improve qcow2 spec about extending image header |
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Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:13:05 +0100 |
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On Fri 31 Jan 2020 03:22:18 PM CET, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> Make it more obvious how to add new fields to the version 3 header and
> how to interpret them.
>
> The specification is adjusted so that for new defined optional fields:
>
> 1. Software may support some of these optional fields and ignore the
> others, which means that features may be backported to downstream
> Qemu independently.
> 2. If we want to add incompatible field (or a field, for which some its
> values would be incompatible), it must be accompanied by
> incompatible feature bit.
>
> Also the concept of "default is zero" is clarified, as it's strange to
> say that the value of the field is assumed to be zero for the software
> version which don't know about the field at all and don't know how to
> treat it be it zero or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
Berto
[PATCH v11 1/2] docs: improve qcow2 spec about extending image header, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2020/01/31