[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/10] Introduce qmisc module

[Anthony Liguori]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> It's 36k, and pulling it in gives the opportunity to customize it.  
> For example, the attached patch allows to parse a "%BLAH" extension to 
> JSON that is passed to the callback (since the parsing is done 
> character-by-character, the callback can consume whatever it wants 
> after the % sign).  Asprintf+parse JSON unfortunately isn't enough 
> because you'd need to escape all strings.

What's the state of this library's upstream?  Should we be pushing these 
changes there and then attempting to package it?

I'd rather pull this in a submodule, try to get it packaged properly, 
and then eventually drop the submodule.  I don't want us to fork the 
library unless we have to.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori