Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9 4/5] rbd: Peel off redundant RbdAuthMethod wrapper struct

[Jeff Cody]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:49:20AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/24/2017 07:42 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> 
> > Agree.  My preference is to leave it as an array of methods, so long as that
> > is tenable to libvirt.
> 
> The -drive syntax should remain unchanged (that's an absolute must for
> libvirt).  But the QMP syntax being an array of methods sounds best to
> me, and I think password-secret should be part of the array.  So my vote
> would be for:
> 
> { "driver": "rbd", "image": "foo",
>   "auth": [ { "type": "cephx", "password-secret": "sec0" },
>             { "type": "none" } ],
>   "pool": "bar" }
> 
> It makes mapping -drive arguments into QMP form a bit trickier, but the
> QMP form is then easily extensible if we add another auth method down
> the road.
> 

In that case, what about adding user as well, and not just password-secret?

Jeff