On 03/31/2018 07:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > As mentioned in earlier email threads, I experimented with an > alternative layout to the structs sent across the wire during > NBD_OPT_{LIST,SET}_META_CONTEXT, on the grounds that having the > namespace and leaf-name combined into one string that requires further > parsing on each end is not as nice as having two separate fields. I'm > replying to this mail with two RFC patches, one for the NBD spec, and > one for the qemu implementation. > > If we like the idea, this has to go into qemu 2.12, so we have less than > a week. Or, we can ignore the RFC, keep qemu the way it is currently > coded, and when it is released, it will be time to promote the NBD > extension-blockstatus to current as there will be an existing > implementation to be interoperable with.
As I got no comments, and as qemu is now frozen hard at 2.12-rc3, it is officially too late to change the format sent over the wire; qemu's implementation will be the reference implementation, and for nbd.git, I'll be promoting extension-blockstatus to the master branch once qemu 2.12 is officially released. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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