Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu commit 65207c59 broke libvirt's capability retrieval (apparently)

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On 06/05/15 23:47, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/05/2015 03:42 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> 
>> I found this qemu commit, ie.
>>
>> commit 65207c59d99f2260c5f1d3b9c491146616a522aa
>> Author: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Thu Mar 5 14:35:26 2015 +0100
>>
>>     monitor: Drop broken, unused asynchronous command interface
>>
>> with bisection. Unfortunately, the bisection was extremely painful, because between a working version and today's pull, part of the qemu history was uncompileable. It was ultimately fixed with
> 
>> Which tells me that it's not individual capabilities that are broken by qemu 65207c59, but the entire libvirt capability retrieval. Apparently libvirt is one user of that async monitor interface. (The message on commit 65207c59 itself mentions "qmp_capabilities".)
> 
> Libvirt doesn't use async capabilities, so much as Markus accidentally
> broke the QMP protocol by completely ditching support for the "id"
> member that libvirt uses on every synchronous QMP command.  Several
> threads already exist on the matter:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01806.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01488.html
> 

Fantastic, I was wondering how I could remedy this (without having to
rebase my work in progress onto 65207c59^). Your second link seems to
have a fix I can apply locally, temporarily. (Hm, well, your first link
does too, just with different comments, as you said.)

Many thanks!
Laszlo

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