Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/2] allow blockdev-add for NFS

[Eric Blake]

On 01/19/2017 08:30 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> qemu-img: Could not open
>>> 'nfs://172.21.200.61/vcore-dev-cdrom/templates/VC_debian8-20170116.qcow2,linux?readahead=131072':
>>> Block protocol 'nfs' doesn't support the option 'readahead-size'
>>>
>>> Please let me know if the below fix would be correct:
>> No, this needs to be fixed the other way round: runtime_opts must use
>> the names as specified in the schema, and nfs_client_open() must access
>> them as such. Without that, blockdev-add can't work (and the command
>> line only with the "wrong" old option names from the URL, whereas it
>> should be using the same names as the QAPI schema).
> 
> Shouldn't we support both for backwards compatiblity.?

blockdev-add only needs to support the modern naming.  But yes,
preserving back-compat spelling of the command-line spellings, as well
as matching blockdev-add spellings, is desirable.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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