Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/14] qemu-img: Implement commit like QMP

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 28.06.2014 um 00:07 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> On 07.06.2014 20:51, Max Reitz wrote:
> >qemu-img should use QMP commands whenever possible in order to ensure
> >feature completeness of both online and offline image operations. For
> >the "commit" command, this is relatively easy, so implement it first
> >(in the hope that indeed others will follow).
> >
> >As qemu-img does not have access to QMP (due to QMP being intertwined
> >with basically everything in qemu), we cannot directly use QMP, but at
> >least use the functions the corresponding QMP commands are using (which
> >would be "block-commit", in this case).
> >
> >
> >With Stefan's pull request for his dataplane series now out, I thought
> >this a good opportunity to send a rebase of this series.
> 
> Ping; Hu Tao will need "minimal_blob_size()" from patch 3 for the
> next iteration of his "qemu-img: add preallocation=full" series.
> Sending an own patch just for that function seems infeasible, as it
> is a static function which would be unused in the meantime (which
> throws a compiler warning and an error thanks to -Werror). Using
> __attribute__((unused)) just for this seems like a hack; especially
> considering that all patches of this series have been reviewed and
> it should therefore be ready to merge.
> 
> In case there are some objections because you want to test it more,
> it would be fine to merge the first three patches (which suffice for
> the preallocation series and should only introduce unused codepaths)
> now and the rest later on.

This series needs rebasing from patch 5 on. I'll review patches 1-3 so
that the dependency for the other series is there.

Kevin