Re: [RFC PATCH v4 04/11] qapi: net: add stream and dgram netdevs

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> writes:

> Copied from socket netdev file and modified to use SocketAddress
> to be able to introduce new features like unix socket.
>
> "udp" and "mcast" are squashed into dgram netdev, multicast is detected
> according to the IP address type.
> "listen" and "connect" modes are managed by stream netdev. An optional
> parameter "server" defines the mode (server by default)
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
> ---

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> diff --git a/net/hub.c b/net/hub.c
> index 1375738bf121..67ca53485638 100644
> --- a/net/hub.c
> +++ b/net/hub.c
> @@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ void net_hub_check_clients(void)
>              case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_USER:
>              case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_TAP:
>              case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_SOCKET:
> +            case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_STREAM:
> +            case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_DGRAM:
>              case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_VDE:
>              case NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_VHOST_USER:
>                  has_host_dev = 1;
> diff --git a/net/meson.build b/net/meson.build
> index 754e2d1d405c..896d86d43914 100644
> --- a/net/meson.build
> +++ b/net/meson.build
> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ softmmu_ss.add(files(
>    'net.c',
>    'queue.c',
>    'socket.c',
> +  'stream.c',
> +  'dgram.c',
>    'util.c',
>  ))
>  
> diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
> index 531e6c5d2056..1295eb946b7a 100644
> --- a/net/net.c
> +++ b/net/net.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
>  #include "qemu/qemu-print.h"
>  #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
>  #include "qemu/option.h"
> +#include "qemu/keyval.h"
>  #include "qapi/error.h"
>  #include "qapi/opts-visitor.h"
>  #include "sysemu/runstate.h"
> @@ -1014,6 +1015,8 @@ static int (* const net_client_init_fun[NET_CLIENT_DRIVER__MAX])(
>  #endif
>          [NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_TAP]       = net_init_tap,
>          [NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_SOCKET]    = net_init_socket,
> +        [NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_STREAM]    = net_init_stream,
> +        [NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_DGRAM]     = net_init_dgram,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_VDE
>          [NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_VDE]       = net_init_vde,
>  #endif
> @@ -1101,6 +1104,8 @@ void show_netdevs(void)
>      int idx;
>      const char *available_netdevs[] = {
>          "socket",
> +        "stream",
> +        "dgram",
>          "hubport",
>          "tap",
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SLIRP
> @@ -1612,7 +1617,34 @@ void net_init_clients(void)
>   */
>  bool netdev_is_modern(const char *optarg)
>  {
> -    return false;
> +    QemuOpts *opts;
> +    bool is_modern;
> +    const char *type;
> +    static QemuOptsList dummy_opts = {
> +        .name = "netdev",
> +        .implied_opt_name = "type",
> +        .head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(dummy_opts.head),
> +        .desc = { { } },
> +    };
> +
> +    if (optarg[0] == '{') {
> +        /*
> +         * detect JSON syntax. It is supported by

Start the sentence with a capital letter.

Maybe: /* This is JSON, which means it's modern syntax */

> +         * qobject_input_visitor_new_str() (modern style syntax)
> +         * but not by qemu_opts_parse_noisily() (old style syntax)
> +         */
> +        return true;
> +    }
> +
> +    opts = qemu_opts_create(&dummy_opts, NULL, false, &error_abort);
> +    qemu_opts_do_parse(opts, optarg, dummy_opts.implied_opt_name,
> +                       &error_abort);
> +    type = qemu_opt_get(opts, "type");
> +    is_modern = !g_strcmp0(type, "stream") || !g_strcmp0(type, "dgram");
> +
> +    qemu_opts_reset(&dummy_opts);
> +
> +    return is_modern;
>  }
>  
>  /*

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