Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.9 8/9] nbd: Tidy up blockdev-add interface

[Max Reitz]

On 30.03.2017 19:43, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> SocketAddress is a simple union, and simple unions are awkward: they
> have their variant members wrapped in a "data" object on the wire, and
> require additional indirections in C.  I intend to limit its use to
> existing external interfaces, and convert all internal interfaces to
> SocketAddressFlat.
> 
> BlockdevOptionsNbd is an external interface using SocketAddress.  We
> already use SocketAddressFlat elsewhere in blockdev=add.  Replace it

Still s/=/-/, but nothing I can't fix. ;-)

Max

> by SocketAddressFlat while we can (it's new in 2.9) for simplicity and
> consistency.  For example,
> 
>     { "execute": "blockdev-add",
>       "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "nbd",
>                      "server": { "type": "inet",
>                                "data": { "host": "localhost",
>                                          "port": "12345" } } } }
> 
> becomes
> 
>     { "execute": "blockdev-add",
>       "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "nbd",
>                      "server": { "type": "inet",
>                                "host": "localhost", "port": "12345" } } }
> 
> Since the internal interfaces still take SocketAddress, this requires
> conversion function socket_address_crumple().  It'll go away when I
> update the interfaces.
> 
> Unfortunately, SocketAddress is also visible in -drive since 2.8:
> 
>     -drive 
> if=none,driver=nbd,server.type=inet,server.data.host=127.0.0.1,server.data.port=12345
> 
> Nobody should be using it, as it's fairly new and has never been
> documented, so adding still more compatibility gunk to keep it working
> isn't worth the trouble.  You now have to use
> 
>     -drive 
> if=none,driver=nbd,server.type=inet,server.host=127.0.0.1,server.port=12345
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/nbd.c          | 53 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  qapi/block-core.json |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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