Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v23 00/32] replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 06:09:40PM +0000, Leandro Dorileo wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:12:11PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote:
> > This patch series is to replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts, so that only
> > one Qemu Option structure is kept in QEMU code.
> > 
> > ---
> > Changes to v21:
> >   * Move find_desc_by_name and qemu_opt_del functions ahead in separate
> >     patches before later calling, so to avoid static declaration.
> >   * Remove some changes that not quite necessary for this patch series:
> >     improve qemu_opt_set, improve assert() in qemu_opt_get,
> >     NULL check in qemu_opt_get and qemu_opt_find.
> >   * improve convert functions and qemu_opts_append() functions
> >   * improve block layer changes to support both struct
> >   * other fixes according to Eric and Stefan's comments.
> > 
> > Not added:
> >   * QemuOpts test suite what Eric suggests, not included in this version, since:
> >     Currently, things that changes QemuOpts original syntax only include:
> >     qemu_opts_del: NULL input check.
> >     opt->name, opt->str: from const char * to char *
> >     Generally, no big change to its original usage.
> > 
> >     Things that are newly added to QemuOpts are:
> >     qemu_opt_append function
> >     qemu_opt_get_*_del functions
> >     I think we could add tests for these functions later based on
> >     Leandro Dorileo's test suite patches:
> >     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg03282.html
> > 
> > 
> > Chunyan Liu (32):
> >   move find_desc_by_name ahead for later calling
> >   add def_value_str to QemuOptDesc
> >   qapi: output def_value_str when query command line options
> >   change opt->name and opt->str from (const char *) to (char *)
> >   move qemu_opt_del ahead for later calling
> >   add qemu_opt_get_*_del functions for replace work
> >   add qemu_opts_print_help to replace print_option_help
> >   add convert functions between QEMUOptionParameter to QemuOpts
> >   add qemu_opts_append to repalce append_option_parameters
> >   check NULL input for qemu_opts_del
> >   qemu_opts_print: change fprintf stderr to printf
> >   qcow2.c: remove 'assigned' check in amend
> >   change block layer to support both QemuOpts and QEMUOptionParamter
> >   vvfat.c: handle cross_driver's create_options and create_opts
> >   cow.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   gluster.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   iscsi.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   qcow.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   qcow2.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   qed.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   raw-posix.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   raw-win32.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   raw_bsd.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   rbd.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   sheepdog.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   ssh.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   vdi.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   vhdx.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   vmdk.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   vpc.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
> >   cleanup QEMUOptionParameter
> >   cleanup tmp 'mallocd' member from QemuOptsList
> 
> 
> The series is still breaking the build and the io tests.
> 
> I picked some patches in the series to see if it was
> supposed to work, I could not build without fixing some
> stuffs (like I commented on [31/32]).
> 
> After fixing the build stuffs I could not successfuly run
> the io tests.
> 
> Testing with all your patches applied I could also not run
> the io tests, they all failed.

Thanks for pointing this out Leandro.

Chunyan, git tip for running the build and tests for every commit in the
series:

  git rebase -x 'make && make check && cd tests/qemu-iotests && ./check' -i master

It is important that the series is bisectable and builds at every point.

Stefan