Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/6] QAPI/QOM work for non-scalar object properties

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 05.09.2016 um 17:16 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> This patch series contains only the QAPI/QOM bits of my previous
> access control patch series:
> 
>  v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg04618.html
>  v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg01454.html
>  v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg02498.html
>  v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg01661.html
>  v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg00485.html
>  v6: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg03876.html
>  v7: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg00919.html
>  v8: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg03115.html
>  v9: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02653.html
>  v10: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02694.html
> 
> This series provides the infrastructure to allow use of non-scalar
> properties with the -object CLI arg, and object_add monitor commands.
> eg a property which is a list of structs. The syntax used for this is
> intentionally compatible with the syntax used by the block layer. This
> will allow the qdict_crumple method to be used by the block layer to
> convert from QemuOpts into structured QAPI block layer structs at a
> future date. It is already used by one of Max's patch series, and
> recent patches for glusterfs multiple-host support could have made
> use of it to simplify code.

I haven't looked at the final patch because that one is irrelevant for
me, but otherwise nice series.

Please keep me copied on new versions of it, I noticed that
qdict_crumple() and qobject_string_visitor_new() are exactly what I need
for implementing the new '-blockdev' option, so I'll build on top of
this.

Kevin