[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit 0/4] common/protocol: Unify public <nbd-protocol.h>

The cover letter was rather brief, let me try to explain this change some more ... When we created libnbd, we needed the definitions of various NBD protocol things (like protocol message layouts, constants etc). We copied a header file from nbdkit which provided these. Over time this header file has diverged from nbdkit's copy. In fact the libnbd one has been generally enhanced over the nbdkit version: - All symbols in libnbd's copy are prefixed by NBD_ or nbd_. - More coverage of the protocol. It would be good, not just for nbdkit/libnbd but for other projects, if we could unify these two files again and publish a liberally licensed copy as /usr/include/nbd-protocol.h. This commit series does this for nbdkit. For libnbd there is an associated patch which just synchronizes the two files. I propose that we eventually change libnbd so that it uses the public (ie. nbdkit) version, but could fall back to an internal copy if the public version does not exist (so that libnbd doesn't need to depend on nbdkit). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html