Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 13/31] qapi: Drop unused 'kind' for struct/enum visit

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:55:03PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> visit_start_struct() and visit_type_enum() had a 'kind' argument
> that was usually set to either the stringized version of the
> corresponding qapi type name, or to NULL (although some clients
> didn't even get that right).  But nothing ever used the argument.
> It's even hard to argue that it would be useful in a debugger,
> as a stack backtrace also tells which type is being visited.
> 
> Therefore, drop the 'kind' argument as dead.  While at it, change
> the signature of visit_start_struct() to place the 'name'
> argument at the end (other than 'errp'), and the 'size' argument
> next to 'obj'; this placement of 'name' matches matches how all
> other functions in visit.h do it (visit_type_enum() places
> 'strings' between 'obj' and 'name'; visit_get_next_type() places
> 'promote_int' between 'type' and 'name').  This also avoids the
> confusion caused by splitting related pieces of information,
> where the old signature an unrelated parameter in between the
> "typename" and sizeof(typename) arguments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

For spapr parts:

Acked-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>

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