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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 00/10] Correct two minor QMP int


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 00/10] Correct two minor QMP interface design flaws
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 06:53:24 +0200
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John Snow <address@hidden> writes:

[...]
> On 07/20/2017 03:53 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> blockdev-add and migrate-set-parameters overload empty strings to mean
>> something entirely different.  See my memo "qapi: Stop abusing
>> "special" values for something entirely different" for details.
>> 
>>     Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg04526.html
>> 
>> This series deprecates these usages of "" in favour of JSON null.
>> Because we're so close to the 2.10 freeze, the implementation is
>> intentionally stupid: rewrite null to "" at first opportunity.  The
>> proper way to do it would be rewriting "" to null, but that requires
>> fixing up code to work with null.  There are TODO comments for that.
>> I'm willing to take care of them in the next development cycle.
>> 
>
> Did this get dropped in favor of a more comprehensive 2.11 fix?

This is the stupid solution for 2.10.  TODO comments in PATCH 05+08-10
mark the spots that could use cleanup.  I hope to get to them in 2.11.

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