From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzrCb-0005vm-Ne for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:32:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzqxj-00043N-Cl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:16:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:16:35 -0400 From: Jeff Cody Message-ID: <20180911221635.GS22117@localhost.localdomain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] block/rbd: add deprecation documenation for filename keyvalue pairs List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-stable@nongnu.org, jsnow@redhat.com, "libvir-list@redhat.com" On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > [MAINTAINERS says libvir-list should have been cc'd; not sure why that > didn't happen] > Thanks > On 9/11/18 4:34 PM, Jeff Cody wrote: > >Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody > > In the subject: s/documenation/documentation/ > > >--- > > qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 +++++++ > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > > >diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi > >index 1b9c007f12..4df8ac442d 100644 > >--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi > >+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi > >@@ -190,6 +190,13 @@ used instead. > > In order to prevent QEMU from automatically opening an image's backing > > chain, use ``"backing": null'' instead. > >+@subsubsection "rbd keyvalue pair encoded filenames": "" (since 3.1.0) > >+ > >+Options for ``rbd'' should be specified according to its runtime options, > >+like other block drivers. Legacy parsing of keyvalue pair encoded > >+filenames is useful to open images with the old format for backing files; > >+These image files should be updated to use the current format. > > Can we give an example? Cribbing from patch 3, an example might look like > changing: > > json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.filename":"rbd:rbd/name"} > > into: > > json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"} > That is a good example, I'll include it. > I'll let Peter or John comment on whether libvirt's RBD pool handler is > impacted by this deprecation, but it seems reasonable to me. > Thanks!