blockdev: Mark {insert, remove}-medium experimental

While in the long term we want throttling to be its own block filter
BDS, in the short term we want it to be part of the BB instead of a BDS;
even in the long term we may want legacy throttling to be automatically
tied to the BB.

blockdev-insert-medium and blockdev-remove-medium do not retain
throttling information in the BB (deliberately so). Therefore, using
them means tying this information to a BDS, which would break the model
described above. (The same applies to other flags such as
detect_zeroes.) We probably want to move this information to the BB or
its own filter BDS before blockdev-{insert,remove}-medium can be
considered completely stable.

Therefore, mark these functions experimental for the time being.

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1449847385-13986-2-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[PMM: fixed format nit (underlining) in qmp-commands.hx]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index a07b13f54a..5a23165dfa 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -2081,7 +2081,7 @@
   'data': { 'device': 'str' } }
 
 ##
-# @blockdev-remove-medium:
+# @x-blockdev-remove-medium:
 #
 # Removes a medium (a block driver state tree) from a block device. That block
 # device's tray must currently be open (unless there is no attached guest
@@ -2089,27 +2089,33 @@
 #
 # If the tray is open and there is no medium inserted, this will be a no-op.
 #
+# This command is still a work in progress and is considered experimental.
+# Stay away from it unless you want to help with its development.
+#
 # @device: block device name
 #
 # Since: 2.5
 ##
-{ 'command': 'blockdev-remove-medium',
+{ 'command': 'x-blockdev-remove-medium',
   'data': { 'device': 'str' } }
 
 ##
-# @blockdev-insert-medium:
+# @x-blockdev-insert-medium:
 #
 # Inserts a medium (a block driver state tree) into a block device. That block
 # device's tray must currently be open (unless there is no attached guest
 # device) and there must be no medium inserted already.
 #
+# This command is still a work in progress and is considered experimental.
+# Stay away from it unless you want to help with its development.
+#
 # @device:    block device name
 #
 # @node-name: name of a node in the block driver state graph
 #
 # Since: 2.5
 ##
-{ 'command': 'blockdev-insert-medium',
+{ 'command': 'x-blockdev-insert-medium',
   'data': { 'device': 'str',
             'node-name': 'str'} }
 
@@ -2137,8 +2143,8 @@
 #
 # Changes the medium inserted into a block device by ejecting the current medium
 # and loading a new image file which is inserted as the new medium (this command
-# combines blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-remove-medium, blockdev-insert-medium
-# and blockdev-close-tray).
+# combines blockdev-open-tray, x-blockdev-remove-medium,
+# x-blockdev-insert-medium and blockdev-close-tray).
 #
 # @device:          block device name
 #