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: Tue, 25 May 2010 16:55:32 +0300 Message-ID: <4BFBD6D4.2040707@redhat.com> References: <20100519192222.GD61706@ncolin.muc.de> <4BF5A9D2.5080609@codemonkey.ws> <4BF91937.2070801@redhat.com> <4BFBAE46.5050801@redhat.com> <4BFBB3C1.9020905@redhat.com> <4BFBCFAC.9070807@codemonkey.ws> <4BFBD63D.5040900@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Blue Swirl , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brunner , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org To: Kevin Wolf Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62443 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758733Ab0EYNzp (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 09:55:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BFBD63D.5040900@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/25/2010 04:53 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > > I'm still not convinced that we need either. I share Christoph's concern > that we would make our life harder for almost no gain. It's probably a > very small group of users (if it exists at all) that wants to add new > block drivers themselves, but at the same time can't run upstream qemu. > > The first part of your argument may be true, but the second isn't. No user can run upstream qemu.git. It's not tested or supported, and has no backwards compatibility guarantees. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function