[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common v3] protocol: Allow to specify a surface will be streamed

[Frediano Ziglio]

ping

> 
> This flag will allow the client to perform some optimisations
> on output and buffering processing.
> Old clients will ignore this additional flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - removed RFC
> ---
>  spice.proto | 13 +++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/spice.proto b/spice.proto
> index e841272..6471b95 100644
> --- a/spice.proto
> +++ b/spice.proto
> @@ -465,8 +465,17 @@ flags8 string_flags {
>  
>  flags32 surface_flags {
>      /* Adding flags requires some caps check, since old clients only
> -       treat the value as an enum and not as a flag (flag == PRIMARY) */
> -    PRIMARY
> +       treat the value as an enum and not as a flag (flag == PRIMARY).
> +       Considering this was fixed by commit
> +       5b6e3d1c16457c926322ce28d341af2e8d39efb5 in Aug 21 2013 is safe
> +       to assume that if capabilities include SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_MULTI_CODEC
> +       we can use any flags */
> +    PRIMARY,
> +    /* The surface will be streamed entirely. This means that only
> +       stream commands will be received and the stream will cover the
> +       entire surface. This flag can be safely ignored and is intended
> +       as an hint for the client */
> +    STREAMING_MODE,
>  };
>  
>  enum32 surface_fmt {