From dbfdf6cb3625c68d0ea84ace4a786406cf43d4f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Wolf Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 14:35:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] qapi/block: Document restrictions for node names blockdev-add fails if an invalid node name is given, so we should document what a valid node name even is. Reported-by: Cong Li Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Reviewed-by: Cong Li Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia --- qapi/block-core.json | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json index 5b9084a394..f20efc97f7 100644 --- a/qapi/block-core.json +++ b/qapi/block-core.json @@ -3572,6 +3572,9 @@ # @driver: block driver name # @node-name: the node name of the new node (Since 2.0). # This option is required on the top level of blockdev-add. +# Valid node names start with an alphabetic character and may +# contain only alphanumeric characters, '-', '.' and '_'. Their +# maximum length is 31 characters. # @discard: discard-related options (default: ignore) # @cache: cache-related options # @read-only: whether the block device should be read-only (default: false).