Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] blockdev: Defer creation of implicit PCI devices for IF_VIRTIO drives

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>]

Am 08.06.2015 um 10:02 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> So I would prefer to not have this workaround and doing 
> 
> index c480f64..7627d57 100644
> --- a/blockdev.c
> +++ b/blockdev.c
> @@ -976,17 +976,6 @@ DriveInfo *drive_new(QemuOpts *all_opts, BlockInterfaceType block_default_type)
>          goto fail;
>      }
>  
> -    if (type == IF_VIRTIO && !done_orphan_check
> -        && arch_type == QEMU_ARCH_S390X) {
> -        /* Virtio drives created on the command line get an implicit device
> -         * created for them. For non-s390x command line drives, the creation
> -         * of the implicit device is deferred to drive_check_orphaned. (S390x
> -         * is special-cased purely for backwards compatibility.)
> -         * Drives created via the monitor (hotplugged) do not get the
> -         * magic implicit device created for them.
> -         */
> -        create_implicit_virtio_device(qdict_get_str(bs_opts, "id"), devaddr);
> -    }
>  
>      filename = qemu_opt_get(legacy_opts, "file");
> 
> actually enables the first command line to work as well.
> So lets get rid of the s390 special handling (but I really appreciate that
> you cared about s390)

As a side note, I cannot test this with libvirt right now, as current qemu broke
libvirts capability query
see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01806.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01488.html


Christian