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[PULL,24/85] specs/qcow2: do not use wording 'bitmap header'

Message ID 20170711160814.20941-25-mreitz@redhat.com
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Max Reitz July 11, 2017, 4:07 p.m. UTC 
From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>

A bitmap directory entry is sometimes called a 'bitmap header'. This
patch leaves only one name - 'bitmap directory entry'. The name 'bitmap
header' creates misunderstandings with 'qcow2 header' and 'qcow2 bitmap
header extension' (which is extension of qcow2 header)

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170628120530.31251-3-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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 docs/interop/qcow2.txt | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/docs/interop/qcow2.txt b/docs/interop/qcow2.txt
index aee3553..d7fdb1f 100644
--- a/docs/interop/qcow2.txt
+++ b/docs/interop/qcow2.txt
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@  The fields of the bitmaps extension are:
 
           8 - 15:  bitmap_directory_size
                    Size of the bitmap directory in bytes. It is the cumulative
-                   size of all (nb_bitmaps) bitmap headers.
+                   size of all (nb_bitmaps) bitmap directory entries.
 
          16 - 23:  bitmap_directory_offset
                    Offset into the image file at which the bitmap directory
@@ -529,8 +529,7 @@  Each bitmap saved in the image is described in a bitmap directory entry. The
 bitmap directory is a contiguous area in the image file, whose starting offset
 and length are given by the header extension fields bitmap_directory_offset and
 bitmap_directory_size. The entries of the bitmap directory have variable
-length, depending on the lengths of the bitmap name and extra data. These
-entries are also called bitmap headers.
+length, depending on the lengths of the bitmap name and extra data.
 
 Structure of a bitmap directory entry: