From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLSJf-0005e8-Gz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 04:11:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLSJc-0001fD-Au for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 04:11:07 -0500 Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([199.115.105.18]:57452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLSJc-0001eD-5B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 04:11:04 -0500 Message-ID: <569DFA95.5020409@virtuozzo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:57:57 +0300 From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1452517517-3953-1-git-send-email-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> <56981C60.9020005@redhat.com> <56982EA9.6030602@redhat.com> <569A4E71.5010004@virtuozzo.com> <569D18CE.5070104@redhat.com> <569D5648.6030605@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <569D5648.6030605@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake , John Snow , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, den@openvz.org, famz@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com On 19.01.2016 00:16, Eric Blake wrote: > preserving semantics of those extra_data bytes). We > have enough room for future extension, and that's good e Ok, so, what should go to the spec? Current wording is ok? Just delete "Type-specific": + + 20 - 23: extra_data_size + Size of type-specific extra data. + + For now, as no extra data is defined, extra_data_size is + reserved and must be zero. + + variable: Extra data for the bitmap. + -- Best regards, Vladimir * now, @virtuozzo.com instead of @parallels.com. Sorry for this inconvenience.