Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 for-2.9 08/10] nbd: Tidy up blockdev-add interface

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

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On 30.03.2017 15:15, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> SocketAddress is a simple union, and simple unions are awkward: they
> have their variant members wrapped in a "data" object on the wire, and
> require additional indirections in C.  I intend to limit its use to
> existing external interfaces, and convert all internal interfaces to
> SocketAddressFlat.
> 
> BlockdevOptionsNbd is an external interface using SocketAddress.  We
> already use SocketAddressFlat elsewhere in blockdev=add.  Replace it

s/=/-/

> by SocketAddressFlat while we can (it's new in 2.9) for simplicity and
> consistency.  For example,
> 
>     { "execute": "blockdev-add",
>       "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "nbd",
>                      "server": { "type": "inet",
> 		                 "data": { "host": "localhost",
> 				           "port": "12345" } } } }
> 
> becomes
> 
>     { "execute": "blockdev-add",
>       "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "nbd",
>                      "server": { "type": "inet",
> 		                 "host": "localhost", "port": "12345" } } }
> 
> Since the internal interfaces still take SocketAddress, this requires
> conversion function socket_address_crumple().  It'll go away when I
> update the interfaces.
> 
> Unfortunately, SocketAddress is also visible in -drive since 2.8.  Add
> still more gunk to nbd_process_legacy_socket_options().  You can now
> shorten
> 
>     -drive if=none,driver=nbd,server.type=inet,server.data.host=127.0.0.1,server.data.port=12345
> 
> to
> 
>     -drive if=none,driver=nbd,server.type=inet,server.host=127.0.0.1,server.port=12345
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/nbd.c          | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  qapi/block-core.json |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

(Hoping the next patch gets squashed in)


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