Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] block/qapi: Add cache information to query-block

[Eric Blake]

On 09/18/2014 05:53 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 18.09.2014 um 13:04 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
>> Before this patch, QAPI type BlockdevCacheOptions is used only as a
>> member of BlockdevOptionsBase.
>>
>> BlockdevOptionsBase is a collection configuration settings.
>> Consequently, it's a complex type whose members are optional exactly
>> when the configuration setting is optional.  Makes sense.
>>
>> Complication: a few options are wrapped in another complex type,
>> BlockdevCacheOptions.  It's optional, but that's not sufficient, it's
>> members are all optional, too.
>>

> I think the choice is between adding BlockdevCacheInfo and changing
> documentation while reusing BlockdevCacheOptions. Both are fine with me.
> Which one do you prefer?

Those two options sound the best to me as well; I'm fine with either,
although I have a slight preference for just documenting on
BlockdevCacheOptions that members are optional on input but will all be
present when generated as output.

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