Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/10] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 05/10/13 17:30, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu,  9 May 2013 21:20:52 -0500
> Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> These patches apply on top of qemu.git master, and can also be obtained from:
>> git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git qapi-native-lists
>>
>> Sending this now since a number of series have popped up in the past that
>> wanted this, and Amos has some pending patches (query-mac-tables) that rely
>> on this as well.
>>
>> These patches add support for specifying lists of native qapi types
>> (int/bool/str/number) like so:
>>
>>   { 'type': 'foo',
>>     'data': { 'bar': ['int'] }}
>>
>> for a 'bar' field that is a list of type 'int',
>>
>>   { 'type': 'foo2',
>>     'data': { 'bar2': ['str'] }}
>>
>> for a 'bar2' field that is a list of type 'str', and so on.
>>
>> This uses linked list types for the native C representations, just as we do
>> for complex schema-defined types. In the future we may add schema annotations
>> of some sort to specify a more natural/efficient array type for the C
>> representations, but this should serve the majority of uses-cases for now.
> 
> Series looks good to me. I'd drop patch 06/10 if it's not required
> for this series though.

I guess:

On 05/10/13 04:20, Michael Roth wrote:
> v1->v2:
>  * fixed do-nothing float tests in pre-existing code and updated new
>    unit tests accordingly (Laszlo)
>  * added a fix for a bug in json parser that was exposed by above change

Laszlo