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Kevin Wolf 6a8c0b5102 qapi: Add feature flags to struct types
Sometimes, the behaviour of QEMU changes without a 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
they can rely on the changed behavior.

Let's add feature flags to the QAPI schema language, so that we can make
such changes visible with schema introspection.

An example for a schema definition using feature flags looks like this:

    { 'struct': 'TestType',
      'data': { 'number': 'int' },
      'features': [ 'allow-negative-numbers' ] }

Introspection information then looks like this:

    { "name": "TestType", "meta-type": "object",
      "members": [
          { "name": "number", "type": "int" } ],
      "features": [ "allow-negative-numbers" ] }

This patch implements feature flags only for struct types. We'll
implement them more widely as needed.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190606153803.5278-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2019-06-12 18:34:26 +02:00
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config docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
devel qapi: Add feature flags to struct types 2019-06-12 18:34:26 +02:00
interop vhost-user: add vhost_user_gpu_set_socket() 2019-05-29 06:29:07 +02:00
specs docs: provide documentation on the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller 2019-05-29 11:39:47 +10:00
spin
amd-memory-encryption.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
block-replication.txt
bootindex.txt
can.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
ccid.txt
COLO-FT.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
colo-proxy.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
conf.py docs/conf.py: Don't hard-code QEMU version 2019-03-07 14:26:47 +00:00
cpu-hotplug.rst docs/cpu-hotplug.rst: Fix rST markup issues 2019-03-07 14:26:44 +00:00
generic-loader.txt docs/generic-loader: mention U-Boot and Intel HEX executable formats 2018-08-20 11:24:31 +01:00
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index.rst docs: provide documentation on the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller 2019-05-29 11:39:47 +10:00
memory-hotplug.txt docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
multi-thread-compression.txt Replace '-enable-kvm' with '-accel kvm' in docs and help texts 2018-06-28 19:05:32 +02:00
multiseat.txt tests/docker/test-mingw and docs: Remove --with-sdlabi=2.0 2019-02-04 15:25:21 +00:00
nvdimm.txt util/mmap-alloc: support MAP_SYNC in qemu_ram_mmap() 2019-04-25 14:17:36 -03:00
pci_expander_bridge.txt
pcie.txt
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pr-manager.rst
pvrdma.txt hw/pvrdma: Remove max-sge command-line param 2019-01-19 10:31:24 +02:00
qcow2-cache.txt qcow2: Default to 4KB for the qcow2 cache entry size 2019-03-08 12:26:45 +01:00
qdev-device-use.txt qemu-options: Remove deprecated "-virtioconsole" option 2019-02-05 16:50:19 +01:00
qemu-block-drivers.texi doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
qemu-cpu-models.texi docs: recommend use of md-clear feature on all Intel CPUs 2019-05-21 15:39:05 -03:00
qemu_logo.pdf
qemupciserial.inf docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
rdma.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
replay.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
security.texi docs: add Security chapter to the documentation 2019-05-10 10:53:52 +01:00
spice-port-fqdn.txt
throttle.txt
usb-storage.txt
usb2.txt docs/usb2.txt: ehci has six ports 2018-08-21 10:22:03 +02:00
vfio-ap.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
virtio-balloon-stats.txt Remove the deprecated -balloon option 2018-08-31 09:52:13 +02:00
xbzrle.txt
xen-save-devices-state.txt