Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH for-2.12] gluster: Fix blockdev-add with server.N.type=unix

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

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Am 04.04.2018 um 17:41 hat Peter Krempa geschrieben:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:09:49 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 04/03/2018 06:08 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > The legacy command line interface gets the socket path from an option
> > > called 'socket'. QAPI in contract uses SocketAddress, where the
> > > corresponding option is called 'path'.
> > > 
> > > Fix the gluster block driver to accept both 'socket' and 'path', with
> > > 'path' being the preferred syntax.
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545155
> > > 
> > > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  block/gluster.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
> > >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks for fixing this. I'm using the new syntax in the -blockdev code
> in libvirt and since I'm qapi- schema-checking the results, it would
> not be possible to use the legacy approach.

-blockdev is validated against the schema on the QEMU side, too. The
legacy option can only be used with -drive.

> > Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Should we also add a deprecation warning for 'socket' and update the
> > deprecation documentation, so we can start the clock ticking on getting
> > rid of maintaining the back-compat glue forever?
> 
> Well, that won't be as easy. Since there is at least one qemu release
> which declared this in the QAPI schema but did not support using it it's
> hard for libvirt to detect that this was fixed, and thus we can't infer
> a capability which would be used to switch to the new-syntax only.

Markus wanted to add some way to declare capabilities for a command in
the schema that could be queried with schema introspection and would
cover such cases. I think we even discussed this with you at KVM Forum?

Eric, do you happen to know if there were any patches on the list
related to this?

Kevin

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