Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: add dirty bitmap status

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 05/12/2015 04:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/12/2015 01:53 PM, John Snow wrote:
>> Bitmaps can be in a handful of different states with potentially
>> more to come as we tool around with migration and persistence patches.
>>
>> Instead of having a bunch of boolean fields, it was suggested that we
>> just have an enum status field that will help expose the reason to
>> management APIs why certain bitmaps may be unavailable for various
>> commands
>>
>> (e.g. busy in another operation, busy being migrated, etc.)
> 
> Might be worth mentioning that this is an API change, but safe because
> the old API is unreleased (and therefore, this patch MUST go in the 2.4
> time frame, if at all).
> 
>>
>> Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  block.c               | 13 ++++++++++++-
>>  include/block/block.h |  1 +
>>  qapi/block-core.json  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> 

I'm not actually sure whose tree this should go in. Markus's, perhaps?

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