Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] block: Drop drv parameter from bdrv_open()

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 26.08.2015 um 19:47 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> We don't really need that parameter, so let's drop it. Doing so may even
> fix some bugs, see
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2015-08/msg00171.html.
> 
> In the course of writing this series, I had to decide whether the make
> sure all callers of bdrv_find_whitelisted_format() would still only
> accept whitelisted formats, which you'd think would be a good idea; but
> the only caller left was qmp_change_blockdev(), so I guess noone really
> cared about it anymore, instead relying on use_bdrv_whitelist alone.
> 
> So I decided dropped bdrv_find_whitelisted_format() completely. If you
> feel this is a bad decision, feel free to argue but then I guess we'll
> have to reevaluate all bdrv_find_format() calls whether they should
> actually be bdrv_find_whitelisted_format() calls.

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin