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Re: [PULL 13/29] qapi: Flatten object-add
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [PULL 13/29] qapi: Flatten object-add |
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Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:12:38 +0200 |
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On 08/07/20 18:05, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Markus was going to introduce new QAPI schema syntax that would allow to
> specify a few options explicitly and then one option for "the rest" that
> would just be mapped to a QDict like "any" or "gen": false, and that
> wouldn't require any nesting.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. That would be something like 'properties':
'remainder' I guess. That would be fine too.
Paolo
> I'm not sure if any progress was made there, but making things
> consistent between device_add, netdev_add and object_add was a step in
> this direction anyway.
>
>> As an aside, it would have been nice to run this through Markus and me,
>> though in all fairness I'm not sure I would have been responsive back
>> in February.
> It went through my tree because of the other patches in the series, but
> I wrote this patch specifically at Markus's request.
>
>> I would like to un-deprecate this for 5.1, and revert it in either 5.1
>> or 5.2. (Also I will be away next week, so the decision would have to
>> be taken quickly).
> Please discuss it with Markus then.