Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 for-2.9 08/11] rbd: Revert -blockdev and -drive parameter auth-supported

[Max Reitz]

On 27.03.2017 15:26, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> This reverts half of commit 0a55679.  We're having second thoughts on
> the QAPI schema (and thus the external interface), and haven't reached
> consensus, yet.  Issues include:
> 
> * The implementation uses deprecated rados_conf_set() key
>   "auth_supported".  No biggie.
> 
> * The implementation makes -drive silently ignore invalid parameters
>   "auth" and "auth-supported.*.X" where X isn't "auth".  Fixable (in
>   fact I'm going to fix similar bugs around parameter server), so
>   again no biggie.
> 
> * BlockdevOptionsRbd member @password-secret applies only to
>   authentication method cephx.  Should it be a variant member of
>   RbdAuthMethod?
> 
> * BlockdevOptionsRbd member @user could apply to both methods cephx
>   and none, but I'm not sure it's actually used with none.  If it
>   isn't, should it be a variant member of RbdAuthMethod?
> 
> * The client offers a *set* of authentication methods, not a list.
>   Should the methods be optional members of BlockdevOptionsRbd instead
>   of members of list @auth-supported?  The latter begs the question
>   what multiple entries for the same method mean.  Trivial question
>   now that RbdAuthMethod contains nothing but @type, but less so when
>   RbdAuthMethod acquires other members, such the ones discussed above.
> 
> * How BlockdevOptionsRbd member @auth-supported interacts with
>   settings from a configuration file specified with @conf is
>   undocumented.  I suspect it's untested, too.
> 
> Let's avoid painting ourselves into a corner now, and revert the
> feature for 2.9.
> 
> Note that users can still configure authentication methods with a
> configuration file.  They probably do that anyway if they use Ceph
> outside QEMU as well.
> 
> qemu_rbd_array_opts()'s parameter @type now must be RBD_MON_HOST,
> which is silly.  This will be cleaned up shortly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/rbd.c          | 31 +++----------------------------
>  qapi/block-core.json | 24 ------------------------
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

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