From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:46:04 +0300 Message-ID: <4BFCDFCC.2050008@redhat.com> References: <20100519192222.GD61706@ncolin.muc.de> <4BF5A9D2.5080609@codemonkey.ws> <4BF91937.2070801@redhat.com> <87wrutg4dk.wl%morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp> <4BFA5D96.3030603@redhat.com> <4BFA696D.2060606@redhat.com> <4BFAD59E.2010706@codemonkey.ws> <4BFB94D9.5080904@redhat.com> <4BFBCDD9.4070104@codemonkey.ws> <4BFBCFB9.6020104@redhat.com> <4BFBD833.1030503@redhat.com> <4BFBF906.7010809@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sage Weil Cc: Kevin Wolf , Anthony Liguori , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brunner , MORITA Kazutaka List-Id: ceph-devel.vger.kernel.org On 05/25/2010 08:12 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2010, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>> What's the reason for not having these drivers upstream? Do we gain >>> anything by hiding them from our users and requiring them to install the >>> drivers separately from somewhere else? >>> >>> >> Six months. >> > FWIW, we (Ceph) aren't complaining about the 6 month lag time (and I don't > think the Sheepdog guys are either). > > In that case (and if there are no other potential users), then there's no need for a plugin API. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54303 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OHCk6-0007Gl-5I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:17:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OHCk5-0003zA-3Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:17:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OHCk4-0003z2-HM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:17:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4BFCDFCC.2050008@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:46:04 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm References: <20100519192222.GD61706@ncolin.muc.de> <4BF5A9D2.5080609@codemonkey.ws> <4BF91937.2070801@redhat.com> <87wrutg4dk.wl%morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp> <4BFA5D96.3030603@redhat.com> <4BFA696D.2060606@redhat.com> <4BFAD59E.2010706@codemonkey.ws> <4BFB94D9.5080904@redhat.com> <4BFBCDD9.4070104@codemonkey.ws> <4BFBCFB9.6020104@redhat.com> <4BFBD833.1030503@redhat.com> <4BFBF906.7010809@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sage Weil Cc: Kevin Wolf , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brunner , MORITA Kazutaka On 05/25/2010 08:12 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2010, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>> What's the reason for not having these drivers upstream? Do we gain >>> anything by hiding them from our users and requiring them to install the >>> drivers separately from somewhere else? >>> >>> >> Six months. >> > FWIW, we (Ceph) aren't complaining about the 6 month lag time (and I don't > think the Sheepdog guys are either). > > In that case (and if there are no other potential users), then there's no need for a plugin API. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function