Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/12] tap: multiqueue support

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:25:24PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 01/09/2013 05:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 06:31:53PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
> >> index 5dfa052..583eb7c 100644
> >> --- a/qapi-schema.json
> >> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> >> @@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@
> >>  { 'type': 'NetdevTapOptions',
> >>    'data': {
> >>      '*ifname':     'str',
> >> -    '*fd':         'str',
> >> +    '*fd':         ['String'],
> > This change is not backwards-compatible.  You need to add a '*fds':
> > ['String'] field instead.
> 
> I'm not quite understand this case, I think it still work when we we
> just specify one fd.

You are right, the QemuOpts visitor shows no incompatibility.

But there is also a QMP interface: netdev_add.  I think changing the
type to a string list breaks compatibility there.

Stefan