Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qapi: Drop support for qobject_from_jsonf("%"PRId64)

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/23/2016 08:17 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>
>> 
>> The first two patches are bug fixes, and as such they should be
>> considered for 2.8.
>> 
>> This patch doesn't fix anything, and it might conceivably break
>> something.  Too late for 2.8.
>
> Ah, but it DOES fix check-qjson on Mac OS.

PATCH 1+2 do, don't they?

> As mentioned to Paolo, I'm splitting this into two parts for the v2
> series (the first part to fix testsuite failures on Mac OS which is
> still 2.8 material, the second to rip out %I64d which becomes more of
> 2.9 material).
>
>>> My other argument is that I _do_ intend to rip out ALL of the dynamic
>>> JSON support, at which point we no longer have %d, let along %lld.
>>> Until you see that followup series and decide whether it was too
>>> invasive for 2.9, it's hard to say that we are throwing out anything
>>> useful in this short-term fix for 2.8.  So I guess that gives me a
>>> reason to hurry up and finish my work on that series to post it today
>>> before I take a long holiday weekend.
>> 
>> If we rip out _jsonf() in 2.9, then ripping out currently unused parts
>> of it in 2.8 during hard freeze is needless churn at a rather
>> inconvenient time.
>> 
>> If we decice not to rip it out, it may well have to be reverted.
>> 
>> I don't think there's a need to hurry, as this patch isn't appropriate
>> for 2.8 anyway, so there's no reason to quickly decide what to do with
>> the followup series now.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> v2 coming soon.

Thanks!