Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 02/01/2010 10:12 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:25:27 -0600
> Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 02/01/2010 07:34 AM, Ian Molton wrote:
>>      
>>> 	Add a reconnect option that allows sockets to reconnect (after a
>>> specified delay) to the specified server. This makes the virtio-rng driver
>>> useful in production environments where the EGD server may need to be restarted.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ian Molton<ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
>>>
>>>        
>> I went back and looked at the last series and found my feedback.  I had
>> suggested that instead of automatically reconnecting, a mechanism should
>> be added for a user to initiate a reconnect.
>>
>> Additionally, we should emit events upon disconnect through QMP (now
>> that we have that functionality).
>>      
>   Should we merge all disconnect events or should we keep them
> separated?
>
>   I mean, we currently have VNC_DISCONNECT and will likely have
> SPICE_DISCONNECT. Maybe we could have a SOCKET_DISCONNECT and have
> a 'source' member, like:
>    

Good question.

I'd suggest for now, keep them separate events.  We can always merge 
them into a single event later and deprecate the old events.  That will 
give us a better idea of what the data payload needs to be.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori