Re: [PATCH] nbd/server: Allow LIST_META_CONTEXT without STRUCTURED_REPLY

[Eric Blake]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 05:19:42PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 07.09.2021 20:35, Eric Blake wrote:
> > The NBD protocol just relaxed the requirements on
> > NBD_OPT_LIST_META_CONTEXT:
> > 
> > https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/commit/13a4e33a87
> > 
> > Since listing is not stateful (unlike SET_META_CONTEXT), we don't care
> > if a client asks for meta contexts without first requesting structured
> > replies.  Well-behaved clients will still ask for structured reply
> > first (if for no other reason than for back-compat to older servers),
> > but that's no reason to avoid this change.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake<eblake@redhat.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>

Thanks; queuing this one through my NBD tree.

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