Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/10] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 17.02.2016 um 11:10 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 04:53:27PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 15.02.2016 um 15:33 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> > > This series of patches expands the syntax of the qemu-img,
> > > qemu-nbd and qemu-io commands to make them more flexible.
> > > 
> > >   v0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg04365.html
> > >   v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04014.html
> > >   v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04354.html
> > >   v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03381.html
> > >   v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg04984.html
> > >   v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-02/msg00022.html
> > > 
> > > First all three gain a --object parameter, which allows
> > > instantiation of user creatable object types. The immediate
> > > use case is to allow for creation of the 'secret' object
> > > type to pass passwords for curl, iscsi and rbd drivers.
> > > For qemu-nbd this will also be needed to create TLS
> > > certificates for encryption support.
> > > 
> > > Then all three gain a '--image-opts' parameter which causes
> > > the positional filenames to be interepreted as option strings
> > > rather tha nplain filenames. This avoids the need to use the
> > > JSON syntax, or to add custom CLI args for each block backend
> > > option that exists. The immediate use case is to allow the
> > > user to specify the ID of the 'secret' object they just created.
> > > 
> > > Finally, there are a few small cleanup patches
> > 
> > Thanks, applied to the block branch.
> 
> The NBD patches just merged, so I've rebased this series and sent you
> a v7 to resolve the conflicts

*sigh* Okay, I'll drop this series and re-review sometime later.

Kevin