From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: Add "backing" and "file" to BlockStats
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:35:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122093553.GB10065@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390361416-24234-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>
Am 22.01.2014 um 04:30 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> Currently there is no way to query BlockStats of the backing chain. This
> adds "backing" and "file" fields into BlockStats to make it possible.
>
> The old optional field "parent", which has the information for "file",
> is kept there for backward compatibility, as an alias for "file".
> However field name "file" is more consistent with "file" option name in
> the block device configuration interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
I don't think it's a good idea to duplicate a field just because we like
the new name better. Eric?
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 3:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: Add "backing" and "file" to BlockStats Fam Zheng
2014-01-22 9:35 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2014-01-22 13:08 ` Eric Blake
2014-01-22 13:07 ` Eric Blake
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