Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v3] qapi: add dirty-bitmaps to query-named-block-nodes result

[John Snow]

On 7/17/19 4:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 7/17/19 2:21 PM, John Snow wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this worth squeezing into 4.1, to start the deprecation clock one
>>> cycle earlier (on the grounds that the missing information for anonymous
>>> nodes is a bug)?  Or am I pushing the boundaries too far, where keeping
>>> this as 4.2 material remains the best course of action?
>>>
>>
>> Appealing option. If you think the deprecation plan is actionable enough
>> for libvirt, I'm in favor.
> 
> I know my code for scraping query-block output during
> virDomainCheckpointGetXMLDesc(,VIR_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT_XML_SIZE) that
> reports the size of the bitmap to the end user hasn't landed yet, and
> that appears to be the only client in libvirt of this information at the
> moment; but it's not a problem for me to check introspection for where
> to find it (as libvirt already has a good framework for scraping
> introspection for other reasons).
> 

Ah, well... rc1 was yesterday already, so actually I think it's probably
just really too late to do this.

--js