Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v14 13/21] qdict: allow qdict_crumple to accept compound types as values

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:25:27AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 18.10.2016 um 17:35 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> > Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:
> > > Of course, you could argue that flat QDicts are the wrong data structure
> > > in the first place and instead of flatting everything we should have
> > > done the equivalent of qdict_crumple from the beginning, but they were
> > > the natural extension of what was already there and happened to work
> > > good enough, so this is what we're currently using.
> > 
> > We didn't "flatten everything", because QemuOpts is and has always been
> > flat to begin with.  Rather we've started to crumple a few things, and
> > in a separate layer.
> 
> That's the QemuOpts point of view.
> 
> I was talking from a block layer view. There we get data in two
> different formats, QMP and the command line. The first is structured,
> the second is flat. We need to make both uniform before we can pass them
> to the actual block layer functions.
> 
> The current code chose to flatten what we get from QMP blockdev-add and
> use that throughout the block layer. We could instead have decided that
> we leave the blockdev-add input as it is, crumple what we get from
> QemuOpts and use nested QObjects throughout the block layer.

I would very much like to see BlockdevOptions structs passed around
the block drivers, instead of QemuOpts - I think it'd lead to much
clearer code than the QemuOpts stuff we have today IMHO

Regards,
Daniel
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