Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] LUKS: encryption slot management using amend interface

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 06:56 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 3/8/20 10:18 AM, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Here is the updated series of my patches, incorporating all the feedback I 
> > received.
> > 
> > Patches are strictly divided by topic to 3 groups, and each group depends 
> > on former groups.
> > 
> > * Patches 1,2 implement qcrypto generic amend interface, including 
> > definition
> >    of structs used in crypto.json and implement this in luks crypto driver
> >    Nothing is exposed to the user at this stage
> > 
> > * Patches 3-9 use the code from patches 1,2 to implement qemu-img amend 
> > based encryption slot management
> >    for luks and for qcow2, and add a bunch of iotests to cover that.
> > 
> > * Patches 10-13 add x-blockdev-amend (I'll drop the -x prefix if you like), 
> > and wire it
> >    to luks and qcow2 driver to implement qmp based encryption slot 
> > management also using
> >    the code from patches 1,2, and also add a bunch of iotests to cover this.
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/284.out       |   6 +-
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/300           | 207 ++++++++++++++++
> 
> Any reason why you skipped straight to test 300, rather than using an 
> available slot like 290?  (Admittedly, our process for reserving slots 
> is not very high-tech: manually scan the list for what other patches out 
> there have claimed a slot, and be prepared to renumber when rebasing)
The only reason I used these slots is that I know sadly that I'll have to 
resend and
rebase this patchset for a while, and every time a test with the number I use 
is added,
this causes relatively hard to fix conflict (or at least I don't know how to 
fix these conflicts effectively)

Thus I used safe numbers, but at the rate this task progresses I won't be 
surprised that when this is merged,
these will be test numbers to use...

TL;DR - these are placeholders, and once the patch set is blesssed for merging 
upstream I'll update this next
available numbers.

Best regards,
        Maxim Levitsky