Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/10] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu,  9 May 2013 21:20:52 -0500
Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:

> These patches apply on top of qemu.git master, and can also be obtained from:
> git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git qapi-native-lists
> 
> Sending this now since a number of series have popped up in the past that
> wanted this, and Amos has some pending patches (query-mac-tables) that rely
> on this as well.
> 
> These patches add support for specifying lists of native qapi types
> (int/bool/str/number) like so:
> 
>   { 'type': 'foo',
>     'data': { 'bar': ['int'] }}
> 
> for a 'bar' field that is a list of type 'int',
> 
>   { 'type': 'foo2',
>     'data': { 'bar2': ['str'] }}
> 
> for a 'bar2' field that is a list of type 'str', and so on.
> 
> This uses linked list types for the native C representations, just as we do
> for complex schema-defined types. In the future we may add schema annotations
> of some sort to specify a more natural/efficient array type for the C
> representations, but this should serve the majority of uses-cases for now.

Series looks good to me. I'd drop patch 06/10 if it's not required
for this series though.