Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com> writes: > On a 'qemu-discuss' thread[1], Kevin identifies that the current doc > blurb for @blockdev-add is stale: > > This is actually a documentation bug. @id doesn't exist, > blockdev-add never creates a BlockBackend. This was different in the > very first versions of the patches to add blockdev-add and we > probably just forgot to update the documentation after removing it. > > So remove the stale bits. > > And the requirement for 'node-name' is already mentioned in the > documentation of @BlockdevOptions: > > [...] > # @node-name: the node name of the new node (Since 2.0). > # This option is required on the top level of blockdev-add. > # Valid node names start with an alphabetic character and may > # contain only alphanumeric characters, '-', '.' and '_'. > Their > # maximum length is 31 characters. > [...] > > [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2020-07/msg00071.html > -- equivalent to "-drive if=ide,id=disk0....." > > Fixes: be4b67bc7d ("blockdev: Allow creation of BDS trees without BB") > > Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com> > Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> > --- > v2: Address Eric Blake's feedback -- > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg08081.html > --- > qapi/block-core.json | 4 +--- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json > index 463ffd83da..3575d73ebf 100644 > --- a/qapi/block-core.json > +++ b/qapi/block-core.json > @@ -4049,9 +4049,7 @@ > ## > # @blockdev-add: > # > -# Creates a new block device. If the @id option is given at the top level, a > -# BlockBackend will be created; otherwise, @node-name is mandatory at the top > -# level and no BlockBackend will be created. > +# Creates a new block device. > # > # Since: 2.9 > #
Queued, thanks!
