Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] qapi-schema: Rename SocketAddressFlat's variant tcp to inet

[Markus Armbruster]

Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 03/02/2017 03:44 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> QAPI type SocketAddressFlat differs from SocketAddress pointlessly:
>>> the discriminator value for variant InetSocketAddress is 'tcp' instead
>>> of 'inet'.  Rename.
>>> 
>>> The type is far only used by the Gluster block drivers.  Take care to
>>> keep 'tcp' working there.
>>
>> The old name was visible in QMP in 2.8, but only by blockdev-add, which
>> we've already argued was not stable (and where we've already made other
>> non-back-compat changes to it).  But that means this HAS to go into 2.9,
>> if we're declaring blockdev-add stable for 2.9.
>
> Yes.
>
> Note that the command line pseudo-filename's URI syntax stays the same
> (file=gluster+tcp://), and the command line's dotted key syntax keeps
> accepting tcp for compatiblity (file.server.0.type=tcp works in addition
> to =inet).
>
>> It wouldn't hurt to mention that additional information in the commit
>> message.
>
> I'll cook something up.

Replacing the second paragraph by

    The type is so far only used by the Gluster block drivers.  Take care
    to keep 'tcp' working in things like -drive's file.server.0.type=tcp.
    The "gluster+tcp" URI scheme in pseudo-filenames stays the same.
    blockdev-add changes, but it has changed incompatibly since 2.8
    already.

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