On 3/19/24 13:17, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19 Mar 2024, at 13:11, Jakob Meng wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 15.03.24 11:19, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>>> On 18 Jan 2024, at 16:26, jm...@redhat.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>> Thank for the patch! What a beast to go trough ;)
>>
>> Thank you for doing it anyway ☺️
>>
>>> I believe the current approach is acceptable. However, we could also
>>> incorporate union callbacks: if registration only supports text, we would
>>> use callback A, and if multiple formats exist, we could employ the new style
>>> callback. This would mitigate the need for a significant overhaul. Just a
>>> suggestion, as I'm ok with the current approach. :)
>>
>> This trades many-initial-changes-across-a-lot-of-files for a 
>> more-complex-registration-and-callback-logic.
>>
>> We could also make struct unixctl_conn visible (move it from lib/unixctl.c 
>> to lib/unixctl.h) and let callees read the output format from its 'fmt' 
>> member. Then we would not have to change the callback signature at all.
> 
> Or have a utility function to return the format, which keeps the structure 
> invisible.

+1, just add some access methods.

> 
>> I do not have a strong opinion here. What do you, Ilya and the others think?
> 
> I’ll wait for others to chime in...

I don't think changing all the callbacks is a good thing to do.
i.e. this patch should not exist or be very small.

> 
>>> Some small style comments highlighted below.
>>
>> I would like to have your eagle eyes...👀 Fixed them!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jakob
> 

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