From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: famz@redhat.com, "Benoît Canet" <benoit@irqsave.net>,
jcody@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/7] qmp: Allow to change password on names block driver states.
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:41:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131209114109.1c4a8d5f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131209162309.GJ3549@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com>
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 17:23:09 +0100
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I'm leaning slightly towards the approach that Benoît took, if only for
> > > the naming aspect (that is, I also thought of the idea of a bool flag,
> > > but didn't suggest it because I didn't like the implications on the
> > > naming). But I can live with either approach, if anyone else has a
> > > strong opinion.
> >
> > Well, we can pick up any descriptive name 'treat-device-as-a-node',
> > 'device-is-a-graph-node'...
>
> All devices are represented by nodes, so that doesn't make sense.
> If anything, 'interpret-device-name-as-node-name', which at the same
> time makes it pretty clear that we're abusing a field for something it
> wasn't meant for.
Having two optionals where they can't be specified at the same time
and can't be left off at the same time is a clear abuse as well.
The truth is, both proposals are bad. This makes me think that maybe
we should introduce a block API 2.0 and deprecate the current one
(partly or completely).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-05 17:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/7] Giving names to BlockDriverState graph nodes Benoît Canet
2013-12-05 17:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 1/7] block: Add bs->node_name to hold the name of a bs node of the bs graph Benoît Canet
2013-12-09 16:04 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-09 16:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-05 17:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 2/7] block: Allow the user to define "node-name" option Benoît Canet
2013-12-06 15:35 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-09 16:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-11 14:42 ` Benoît Canet
2013-12-05 17:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 3/7] qmp: Add a command to list the named BlockDriverState nodes Benoît Canet
2013-12-06 15:59 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-09 15:46 ` Benoît Canet
2013-12-10 15:22 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-05 17:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/7] qmp: Allow to change password on names block driver states Benoît Canet
2013-12-06 14:27 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-12-06 15:24 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-06 16:52 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-12-09 13:35 ` Benoît Canet
2013-12-09 16:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-09 16:41 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2013-12-09 16:48 ` Benoît Canet
2013-12-09 17:03 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-12-09 17:16 ` Benoît Canet
2013-12-10 9:57 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-10 14:06 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-12-10 14:25 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-10 15:16 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-12-10 15:54 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-10 16:15 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-11 3:52 ` Fam Zheng
2013-12-11 13:20 ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-12-05 17:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 5/7] qmp: Allow block_resize to manipulate bs graph nodes Benoît Canet
2013-12-09 16:24 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-09 16:41 ` Benoît Canet
2013-12-10 9:59 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-12-05 17:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 6/7] block: Create authorizations mechanism for external snapshots Benoît Canet
2013-12-05 17:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 7/7] qmp: Allow to take external snapshots on bs graphs node Benoît Canet
2013-12-09 15:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/7] Giving names to BlockDriverState graph nodes Kevin Wolf
2013-12-09 15:52 ` Benoît Canet
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