From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] fuse: Allow exporting BDSs via FUSE
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:18:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <931c2067-fe6d-d65d-cc60-d0b20385e84b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e2rf7sh.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On 12/20/19 7:25 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>> I suppose moving a field between a union base and all variants does
>> still result in different introspection even though the accepted inputs
>> are the same.
>
> Correct. A common member (whether it's local or from the base) is in
> SchemaInfoObject.members[]. Moving it to all the variants moves it to
> the variant types' .members[].
>
>> Is this kind of movement still allowed unconditionally or
>> should we be more careful with something like this?
>
> QMP's backward compatibility promise does not include "introspection
> value won't change". Still, such changes can conceivably confuse
> clients. Care is advisable. But it's not a hard "no".
And libvirt already correctly handles movements like this (so there are
existing clients aware of the potential confusion).
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-20 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-19 14:38 [PATCH 00/18] block: Allow exporting BDSs via FUSE Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 01/18] configure: Detect libfuse Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 02/18] fuse: Allow exporting BDSs via FUSE Max Reitz
2019-12-20 10:26 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-20 10:48 ` Max Reitz
2019-12-20 11:24 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-20 12:09 ` Max Reitz
2019-12-20 12:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-12-20 12:58 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-20 13:25 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-12-20 21:18 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2019-12-20 12:49 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-12-20 13:02 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-20 21:15 ` Eric Blake
2020-01-06 12:00 ` Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 03/18] fuse: Implement standard FUSE operations Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 04/18] fuse: Add fuse-export-remove Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 05/18] fuse: Allow growable exports Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 06/18] fuse: (Partially) implement fallocate() Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 07/18] fuse: Implement hole detection through lseek Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 08/18] iotests: Do not needlessly filter _make_test_img Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 09/18] iotests: Do not pipe _make_test_img Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 10/18] iotests: Use convert -n in some cases Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 11/18] iotests: Avoid renaming images Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 12/18] iotests: Derive image names from $TEST_IMG Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 13/18] iotests/091: Use _cleanup_qemu instad of "wait" Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 14/18] iotests: Restrict some Python tests to file Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 15/18] iotests: Let _make_test_img guess $TEST_IMG_FILE Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 16/18] iotests: Allow testing FUSE exports Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 17/18] iotests: Enable fuse for many tests Max Reitz
2019-12-19 14:38 ` [PATCH 18/18] iotests/281: Add test for FUSE exports Max Reitz
2019-12-19 19:05 ` [PATCH 00/18] block: Allow exporting BDSs via FUSE Max Reitz
2019-12-20 10:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-12-20 10:30 ` Max Reitz
2019-12-20 12:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-20 21:20 ` Eric Blake
2020-01-02 11:22 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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