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Re: [Qemu-devel] BB name vs. BDS name in the QAPI schema
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] BB name vs. BDS name in the QAPI schema |
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Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:31:58 +0800 |
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On Sat, 09/13 19:04, Markus Armbruster wrote:
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> I actually like having separate parameters for separate kinds of names.
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> However, BlockdevRef appears to tie our hand: it's an anonymous union,
> which means only the value is on the wire, and the receiving end uses
> its type to determine which union member it is. Both kinds of names are
> strings, so we can't have separate union members for them.
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> Opinions?
Why wouldn't it work without distinguishing it in the QAPI side?
I remember at the time of introducing node-name, it was in a separate
namespace, but now it's not. Then why should the user care *whether* a name is
"device" or "node-name"?
Fam