From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afQiz-0005Mw-Eb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:31:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afQiy-0005JI-N9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:31:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:31:42 +0100 From: Kevin Wolf Message-ID: <20160314113141.GA4812@noname.redhat.com> References: <1457454872-12183-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1457454872-12183-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] block: Use BB function in .bdrv_create() implementations List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Am 08.03.2016 um 17:34 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben: > All users of the block layers are supposed to go through a BlockBackend. > The .bdrv_create() implementations are such users, so this series > converts them. > > This series (specifically patch 1) will also help with moving the > writethrough cache implementation from BDS to BB, where it really > belongs. Once this is moved, it wouldn't be possible to use bdrv_open() > to use a standalone BDS writethrough any more. > > Of course, writethrough doesn't make any sense in .bdrv_create() anyway, > so while I'm still converting everything to BB where it would keep > working (because that's the Right Thing), the drivers don't actually > make use of this fact any more after this series. Applied to the block branch. Kevin