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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:59:46 +0000
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] qed: Periodically flush and clear need
	check bit
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Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

This patch marks QED images as clean periodically when it is safe to do so.
This reduces the chance of having to perform a consistency check at startup.
Previously we left the image dirty even when it was consistent, therefore
risking an unnecessary consistency check after crash.

The first patch just stubs out qemu-timer.c functions for qemu-tool.c, which is
needed since block drivers get built into qemu-img and friends.  I don't know
the timers code well so please suggest alternatives if simple stubbing is
wrong.