Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] Add QMP bits for blockdev-snapshot-sync.

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 04/27/11 17:05, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 04/27/11 17:05, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:27:01 +0200
>> Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> This is quivalent to snapshot_blkdev in the human monitor, with _sync
>>> added to the command name to make it explicit that the command is
>>> synchronous and leave space for a future async version.
>>
>> I'm not sure appending "_sync" is such a good convention, most commands
>> are sync today and they don't have it. I'd prefer to call it snapshot_blkdev
>> and note in the documentation how it works.
>>
>> On the other hand, I'm not sure how Anthony is going to model async
>> commands, so maybe he has a better suggestion.
> 
> The _sync prefix is on purpose to leave space for a possible async
> implementation of the snapshot command in the future. This isn't related
> to it being a sync vs async qmp command though.

If people are more comfortable with the QMP command being
"blockdev-snapshot" and then using {-,_}async for the async comment in
the monitor and QMP later, that is fine with me.

I'd just like to move on this and get it upstream.

Cheers,
Jes