From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6656-0006vb-9V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:24:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6650-0000mw-PW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 19:24:36 -0500 References: <87bna7v9bc.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20151204000157.GF9559@voom.redhat.com> <87mvtqy6xs.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20151204093554.GJ9559@voom.redhat.com> <87io4ettf0.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20151208001802.GF20139@voom.fritz.box> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <5666232E.7040302@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 17:24:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151208001802.GF20139@voom.fritz.box> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aOSsRT6sF2v9WRgodBSkfAVJmsnhcRrWb" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Posible regressions around spapr-dr-connector property drc-connector[] List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: David Gibson , Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --aOSsRT6sF2v9WRgodBSkfAVJmsnhcRrWb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/07/2015 05:18 PM, David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:11:31AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> David Gibson writes: >> >>>> It was {} in 2.4. Changing it to null so we can distingish "nothing= " >>>> from "empty" is an incompatible change. May make sense anyway, but = I >>>> can't judge it. >>> >>> Strictly speaking it's an incompatible change, yes. But I find it >>> hard to imagine anything would be relying on the {} behaviour. This >>> property is essentially a debugging interface to start with, and the >>> missing / empty case is examining it in a state that's unlikely to be= >>> interesting. >> >> I'm not against changing it, I just want it changed intentionally rath= er >> than by accidental side effect :) >> >> If you tell me you want null here going forward, I'll make sure it get= s >> changed to null in the next development cycle, with a nice commit >> message. >=20 > I would like it to be null (or simply missing) in future. Okay, I'm about to post the patch for just that, for the 2.6 timeframe. > But leaving it as is for 2.5 is fine. Good. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --aOSsRT6sF2v9WRgodBSkfAVJmsnhcRrWb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWZiMuAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nqk3YH/3ShGgJALmDqLCQLRZKPKjzu KL6xn83M0pNhb3mtdnZlzvonwVcyJUnVYg0GMsqxh8EsbulwdvQ+hTWjJDGw7odK 29i1qVTDDh5qpWgZrunlQ5AyzWLAADxOiYv5dNo6x5ydYFGEaH69hhFgIbuE9FG1 vAhKbia0mX7g7E/dphwcWTK2DDe+q1kwi/Rdjci0klw3FWy1KX+lix9pCDp+tQ7B ujmmahc7Kc2ksekfERYEDzl165WhxtIzqRnnhiHthUDsJtEoy7X/bk5j2i19DEOl B+MpRNKpQewSfxlp7xteAXFJDKNs/UHHpjpHhv15fuIZnG8Ktpw1qvQBsOF+8Tg= =nbVd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aOSsRT6sF2v9WRgodBSkfAVJmsnhcRrWb--