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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:25:27 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC configurable block formats
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> writes:
>   
>
>>          The list would be used to exclude block formats and could be
>> extended to support read-only formats vs. read-write formats.  For
>> instance, --enable-block-formats='qcow2 raw'.  It avoids polluting the
>> block interface with knowledge of the distinction between a "utility"
>> program and qemu proper.
>>     
>
> I agree it's better to keep it out of the BlockDriver interface.
>
> Here's a patch for illustration.  It's only lightly tested, lacks the
> configure part, and I still need to check all users of bdrv_open2() are
> happy.  Are we on the same page?
>   

Looks reasonable to me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori