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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: berrange@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
	"reviewer:Incompatible changes" <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
	tao3.xu@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 10:31:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210205103138.GB30079@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d2c705b-8bac-5229-00e1-0c3d2f1a6f07@virtuozzo.com>

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 01:25:18PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 04.02.2021 22:07, Eric Blake wrote:
> >Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have an 'E' suffix
> 
> What about also deprecating 'E' suffix? (just my problem of reviewing previous patch)

Ha! What if people want to specify exabytes?!  That actually works at
the moment:

$ nbdkit memory 7E --run 'qemu-io -f raw -c "r -v 1E 512" "$uri"'

Rich.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-05 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-04 19:07 [PATCH 0/3] Improve do_strtosz precision Eric Blake
2021-02-04 19:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] utils: Improve qemu_strtosz() to have 64 bits of precision Eric Blake
2021-02-04 20:12   ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 10:06     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-02-05 10:18       ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-02-05 14:06       ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 14:10         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-05 10:07   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-02-05 14:12     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 10:28   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2021-02-05 14:15     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 11:02   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-05 14:27     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 14:36       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-05 11:34   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-05 14:36     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-04 19:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes Eric Blake
2021-02-05 10:25   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-02-05 10:31     ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2021-02-05 13:38     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 11:13   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-05 13:40     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 14:02       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-04 19:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] utils: Deprecate inexact fractional suffix sizes Eric Blake
2021-02-04 20:02   ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 10:34   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2021-02-05 14:19     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 10:38   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-02-05 11:10   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-05 14:28     ` Eric Blake
2021-02-05 14:40       ` Daniel P. Berrangé

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