Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qapi: Add feature flags to commands in qapi introspection

[Eric Blake]

On 9/17/19 10:49 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Similarly to features for struct types introduce the feature flags also
> for commands. This will allow notifying management layers of fixes and
> compatible changes in the behaviour of an command which may not be

s/ an / a /

> detectable any other way.
> 
> The changes were heavily inspired by commit 6a8c0b51025.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <address@hidden>
> ---
>  docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt   |  4 ++--

May be some rebase churn needed here as Markus has been reworking that file:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg02959.html

>  qapi/introspect.json           |  6 ++++-
>  scripts/qapi/commands.py       |  3 ++-
>  scripts/qapi/common.py         | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  scripts/qapi/doc.py            |  3 ++-
>  scripts/qapi/introspect.py     |  7 +++++-
>  tests/qapi-schema/test-qapi.py |  7 +++++-
>  7 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
> index e8ec8ac1de..38682daace 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
> +++ b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
> @@ -726,8 +726,8 @@ change in the QMP syntax (usually by allowing values or 
> operations that
>  previously resulted in an error). QMP clients may still need to know
>  whether the extension is available.
> 
> -For this purpose, a list of features can be specified for a struct type.
> -This is exposed to the client as a list of string, where each string
> +For this purpose, a list of features can be specified for a command or struct
> +type. This is exposed to the client as a list of string, where each string

Pre-existing, but "list of strings" or "list of string entries"

>  signals that this build of QEMU shows a certain behaviour.
> 
-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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