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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	"Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] migration: export cap/params to qdev props
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:01:10 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170714160110.GF6020@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170714050423.GM27284@pxdev.xzpeter.org>

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 01:04:23PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:05:58PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 02:53:40PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > [...]
> > > These properties should only be used for debugging/testing purpose,
> > > and we should not guarantee any interface compatibility for them (just
> > > like HMP).
> > 
> > If we don't guarantee compatibility, the property names need to
> > be prefixed with "x-".
> 
> Indeed. Sorry I missed that.
> 
> But I'd say it is slightly awkward to add "x-" for all these (for me,
> "x-" means more like "this is not stable and experimental, use it
> carefully", while this does not suite for this series). Maybe I can
> just remove this sentence in commit log (I think I am just a little
> bit frightened by the compatibility problems)...

"x-" in property names doesn't mean "experimental", but just "not
part of the stable interface".  If you have the tiniest doubt
about command-line compatibility, I think it won't hurt to use
"x-".

-- 
Eduardo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-14 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-12  6:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] migration: export cap/params to qdev props Peter Xu
2017-07-12  6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qdev: provide DEFINE_PROP_INT64() Peter Xu
2017-07-13 16:05   ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-07-14  3:06     ` Peter Xu
2017-07-12  6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] migration: export parameters to props Peter Xu
2017-07-12 18:49   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-07-12  6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] migration: export capabilities " Peter Xu
2017-07-12 18:59   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-07-12 19:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] migration: export cap/params to qdev props Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-07-14  4:23   ` Peter Xu
2017-07-14 15:57     ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-17  3:25       ` Peter Xu
2017-07-12 19:05 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-14  5:04   ` Peter Xu
2017-07-14 16:01     ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2017-07-14 16:32       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-07-17  3:06         ` Peter Xu

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