Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.1?] scripts: qapi-event.py: support vendor extension

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 09:43:53 -0600
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 07/08/2014 12:17 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > The event code generator barfs when it sees a dot in an event
> > argument, this makes it impossible to support vendor extensions
> > in event arguments as they always contain dots. Fix this by
> > replacing dots by hyphens in the generated code.
> > 
> > PS: Event names and QMP command arguments may suffer from the
> > same issue, but I'm not checking/fixing them today.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  scripts/qapi-event.py | 8 ++++----
> >  scripts/qapi.py       | 4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> 
> This is borderline on whether it is a bug fix worth applying in 2.1 - it
> is fixing something that is new to this release (event-as-qapi) and
> which affects downstream vendors; but at the same time, it is something
> which cannot be triggered _except_ by downstream vendors, which are
> perfectly capable of applying this patch even if it misses 2.1.  I'll
> leave it up to you.

I'm not sure it qualifies. On the one hand it's a bug in new code that
didn't exist before, on the other hand this is by far not blocker and
it doesn't cause any code to malfunction.