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| author | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com> | 2013-10-11 09:29:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com> | 2013-10-11 09:29:58 -0700 |
| commit | 33c6cae44eccea5e627c2dc5cbf31456db90fc38 (patch) | |
| tree | 26f994c9f78144b2a6f12da686a2235d0df1dd21 /docs | |
| parent | 39c153b80f890dc5f02465dc59992e195abd5f40 (diff) | |
| parent | 34eeb82de65ce9f83081a3357b0afe80a6a1d86a (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging
# By Max Reitz (30) and others
# Via Kevin Wolf
* kwolf/for-anthony: (61 commits)
qemu-iotests: Add test for inactive L2 overlap
qemu-io: Let "open" pass options to block driver
vmdk: Fix vmdk_parse_extents
blockdev: blockdev_init() error conversion
blockdev: Don't disable COR automatically with blockdev-add
blockdev: Remove 'media' parameter from blockdev_init()
qemu-iotests: Check autodel behaviour for device_del
blockdev: Remove IF_* check for read-only blockdev_init
blockdev: Move virtio-blk device creation to drive_init
blockdev: Move bus/unit/index processing to drive_init
blockdev: Move parsing of 'boot' option to drive_init
blockdev: Moving parsing of geometry options to drive_init
blockdev: Move parsing of 'if' option to drive_init
blockdev: Move parsing of 'media' option to drive_init
blockdev: Pass QDict to blockdev_init()
blockdev: Separate ID generation from DriveInfo creation
blockdev: 'blockdev-add' QMP command
blockdev: Introduce DriveInfo.enable_auto_del
qapi-types/visit.py: Inheritance for structs
qapi-types/visit.py: Pass whole expr dict for structs
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Message-id: 1381503951-27985-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/qapi-code-gen.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/specs/qcow2.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt index 0ce045c0b3..91f44d01b9 100644 --- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt +++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt @@ -53,6 +53,23 @@ The use of '*' as a prefix to the name means the member is optional. Optional members should always be added to the end of the dictionary to preserve backwards compatibility. + +A complex type definition can specify another complex type as its base. +In this case, the fields of the base type are included as top-level fields +of the new complex type's dictionary in the QMP wire format. An example +definition is: + + { 'type': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat', 'data': { 'file': 'str' } } + { 'type': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat', + 'base': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat', + 'data': { '*backing': 'str' } } + +An example BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat object on the wire could use +both fields like this: + + { "file": "/some/place/my-image", + "backing": "/some/place/my-backing-file" } + === Enumeration types === An enumeration type is a dictionary containing a single key whose value is a diff --git a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt index 33eca360cc..f19536a46f 100644 --- a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt +++ b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt @@ -355,3 +355,6 @@ Snapshot table entry: variable: Unique ID string for the snapshot (not null terminated) variable: Name of the snapshot (not null terminated) + + variable: Padding to round up the snapshot table entry size to the + next multiple of 8. |