From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: nbd block device backend - 'improvements' Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:40:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4D5A3C18.3040903@redhat.com> References: <1297704538.9421.75.camel@desk4.office.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Nicholas Thomas Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1455 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753219Ab1BOIlH (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:41:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1297704538.9421.75.camel@desk4.office.bytemark.co.uk> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/14/2011 07:28 PM, Nicholas Thomas wrote: > I'm interested in getting the changes merged upstream, so I thought I'd > get in early and ask if you'd be interested in the patch, in principle; > whether the old behaviour would need to be preserved, making the new > behaviour accessible via a config option ("-drive > file=nbd:127.0.0.1:5000:retry=forever,..." ?); and whether I'm going > about the changes in a sane way (I've attached the current version of > the patch). > Upstream is qemu-devel@nongnu.org, where qemu is developed. In particular Kevin Wolf , the block layer maintainer. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function