On 08/07/20 18:05, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Markus was going to introduce new QAPI schema syntax that would allow to > specify a few options explicitly and then one option for "the rest" that > would just be mapped to a QDict like "any" or "gen": false, and that > wouldn't require any nesting.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. That would be something like 'properties': 'remainder' I guess. That would be fine too. Paolo > I'm not sure if any progress was made there, but making things > consistent between device_add, netdev_add and object_add was a step in > this direction anyway. > >> As an aside, it would have been nice to run this through Markus and me, >> though in all fairness I'm not sure I would have been responsive back >> in February. > It went through my tree because of the other patches in the series, but > I wrote this patch specifically at Markus's request. > >> I would like to un-deprecate this for 5.1, and revert it in either 5.1 >> or 5.2. (Also I will be away next week, so the decision would have to >> be taken quickly). > Please discuss it with Markus then.
