Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 18/26] block: Add sgfnt_runtime_opts to BlockDriver

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

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On 2018-02-06 20:43, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/05/2018 09:18 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> This new field can be set by block drivers to list the runtime options
>> they accept that may influence the contents of the respective BDS. As of
>> a follow-up patch, this list will be used by the common
>> bdrv_refresh_filename() implementation to decide which options to put
>> into BDS.full_open_options (and consequently whether a JSON filename has
>> to be created), thus freeing the drivers of having to implement that
>> logic themselves.
>>
>> Additionally, this patch adds the field to all of the block drivers that
>> need it and sets it accordingly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>> ---
> 
>> +    /* Pointer to a NULL-terminated array of names of significant
>> options that
>> +     * can be specified for bdrv_open(). A significant option is one
>> that
>> +     * changes the data of a BDS.
>> +     * If this pointer is NULL, the array is considered empty.
>> +     * "filename" and "driver" are always considered significant. */
>> +    const char *const *sgfnt_runtime_opts;
> 
> Warning: Bikeshedding follows:
> 
> s/sgfnt/vital/
> 
> might read easier (same number of letters, but has some vowels rthr thn
> bng crptc bbrvtn).

So, did we reach any verdict on this? :-)

To sum up IRC (as far as I've understood), I don't quite like "vital" or
"needed" because they sound like those options would be required; but
they usually have defaults so they are not.

I preferred "strong", but you said that might mean something else
(although I still don't know what exactly :-)).

So...?

Max


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