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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:28:56 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format
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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Stefan Weil wrote:
> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
>   
> Yes, at least it should be straight forward to do.
> I planned to switch to AIO in a second stage.
>
> It would help if you could already commit the synchronous version
> as soon as the endianess issue (detected by Kevin Wolf, thanks)
> and an additional bug in the write code are fixed
> (code is ready, but still untested - a patch will follow this week).
>   

I'd rather not do that.  The synchronous IO functions are really broken 
in a fundamental way.

> I don't plan to change the code's license from GPL to MIT.
> This is a matter of my personal taste. Is this a problem
> for new block driver code?
>   

GPL is always fine by me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> Stefan Weil
>
>