Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/7] qmp: Allow to change password on names block driver states.

[Benoît Canet]

Le Monday 09 Dec 2013 à 11:41:09 (-0500), Luiz Capitulino a écrit :
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 17:23:09 +0100
> Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm leaning slightly towards the approach that Benoît took, if only for
> > > > the naming aspect (that is, I also thought of the idea of a bool flag,
> > > > but didn't suggest it because I didn't like the implications on the
> > > > naming).  But I can live with either approach, if anyone else has a
> > > > strong opinion.
> > > 
> > > Well, we can pick up any descriptive name 'treat-device-as-a-node',
> > > 'device-is-a-graph-node'...
> > 
> > All devices are represented by nodes, so that doesn't make sense.
> > If anything, 'interpret-device-name-as-node-name', which at the same
> > time makes it pretty clear that we're abusing a field for something it
> > wasn't meant for.
> 
> Having two optionals where they can't be specified at the same time
> and can't be left off at the same time is a clear abuse as well.
> 
> The truth is, both proposals are bad. This makes me think that maybe
> we should introduce a block API 2.0 and deprecate the current one
> (partly or completely).
> 

It took me one year to go from the block filters and block backend
requirement to the state where my customer allows me to work on block filters.

Now if we add to this the new requirement of block API 2.0 I think I will soon
have time to concentrate myself on non qemu projects :(

Best regards

Benoît