From aed464e31c9f6d92aa67960dc1a0891461393305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Snow Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:32:33 -0400 Subject: block/rbd: add deprecation documentation for filename keyvalue pairs RH-Author: John Snow Message-id: <20181010203015.11719-5-jsnow@redhat.com> Patchwork-id: 82625 O-Subject: [RHEL8/rhel qemu-kvm PATCH 4/4] block/rbd: add deprecation docume Bugzilla: 1635585 RH-Acked-by: Markus Armbruster RH-Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi RH-Acked-by: Thomas Huth From: Jeff Cody Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody Message-id: 647f5b5ab7efd8bf567a504c832b1d2d6f719b23.1536704901.git.jcody@re Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody (cherry picked from commit 3bebd37e04f972775b1ece1bdda95451bc9fb14c) Signed-off-by: John Snow Signed-off-by: Danilo C. L. de Paula Signed-off-by: John Snow Rebase notes (3.0.0): - Used upstream version --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 9920a85..cff0e8b 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -227,6 +227,21 @@ from old QEMU versions anymore. A newer machine type should be used instead. In order to prevent QEMU from automatically opening an image's backing chain, use ``"backing": null'' instead. +@subsubsection rbd keyvalue pair encoded filenames: "" (since 3.1.0) + +Options for ``rbd'' should be specified according to its runtime options, +like other block drivers. Legacy parsing of keyvalue pair encoded +filenames is useful to open images with the old format for backing files; +These image files should be updated to use the current format. + +Example of legacy encoding: + +@code{json:@{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.filename":"rbd:rbd/name"@}} + +The above, converted to the current supported format: + +@code{json:@{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"@}} + @subsection vio-spapr-device device options @subsubsection "irq": "" (since 3.0.0) -- 1.8.3.1