From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/14] qapi: convert eject (qmp and hmp) to QAPI
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:03:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E56561F.7020208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5653B4.9030206@redhat.com>
On 08/25/2011 04:52 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >
> > It's not pretty, but it lets us preserve compatibility. I think it's
> > also safer for dealing with pointers because otherwise you have a mix of
> > pointers that may be null and may not be null. Having a clear
> > indication of which pointers are nullable makes for safer code.
>
> I'm not saying that implementing a default value in generic (or
> generated) code works for all cases. But if the schema supported default
> values, we could get rid of the parameter in all simple cases (which I
> would expect to be the majority); and if there is no default value in
> the schema, we could still generate the has_* parameters.
>
An alternative is to pass a struct by value, with a .valid bool followed
by the actual value (which should be initialized even if not valid, just
to be safe).
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 18:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] Convert commands to QAPI (batch 1) Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/14] qerror: add qerror_report_err() Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 20:15 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-02 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/14] qapi: add code generation support for middle mode Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/14] qapi: use middle mode in QMP server Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 20:20 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-24 20:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 16:24 ` Michael Roth
2011-08-25 16:30 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-02 16:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-02 16:09 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-02 16:31 ` Michael Roth
2011-09-02 16:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-02 16:57 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-24 18:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/14] qapi: convert query-name Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 20:28 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-24 20:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 21:02 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/14] block: add unsafe_probe Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/14] monitor: expose readline state Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/14] qerror: add additional parameter to QERR_DEVICE_ENCRYPTED Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/14] qapi: convert eject (qmp and hmp) to QAPI Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 21:06 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-25 12:19 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-25 13:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-25 14:03 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-09-02 16:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-02 16:36 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/14] qapi: convert block_passwd and add set-blockdev-password Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 12:29 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] qapi: add change-vnc-password Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 9:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-08-25 13:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:33 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-02 16:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/14] qapi: add change-vnc-listen Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-02 16:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/14] qapi: introduce change-blockdev Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 12:46 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-25 12:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 13:47 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-25 13:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 14:09 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-25 14:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 14:52 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/14] qapi: convert change Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 14:43 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-24 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/14] vnc: don't demote authentication protocol when disabling login Anthony Liguori
2011-08-24 20:45 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-24 20:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] Convert commands to QAPI (batch 1) Luiz Capitulino
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