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By convention, names starting with "x-" are experimental. The parts of external interfaces so named may be withdrawn or changed incompatibly in future releases. The naming convention makes unstable interfaces easy to recognize. Promoting something from experimental to stable involves a name change. Client code needs to be updated. Occasionally bothersome. Worse, the convention is not universally observed: * QOM type "input-barrier" has properties "x-origin", "y-origin". Looks accidental, but it's ABI since 4.2. * QOM types "memory-backend-file", "memory-backend-memfd", "memory-backend-ram", and "memory-backend-epc" have a property "x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id" that is documented to be stable despite its name. We could document these exceptions, but documentation helps only humans. We want to recognize "unstable" in code, like "deprecated". So support recognizing it the same way: introduce new special feature flag "unstable". It will be treated specially by the QAPI generator, like the existing feature flag "deprecated", and unlike regular feature flags. This commit updates documentation and prepares tests. The next commit updates the QAPI schema. The remaining patches update the QAPI generator and wire up -compat policy checking. Management applications can then use query-qmp-schema and -compat to manage or guard against use of unstable interfaces the same way as for deprecated interfaces. docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt no longer mandates the naming convention. Using it anyway might help writers of programs that aren't full-fledged management applications. Not using it can save us bothersome renames. We'll see how that shakes out. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20211028102520.747396-2-armbru@redhat.com> |
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