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Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:03:46 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brunner <chb@muc.de>

On 05/25/2010 08:55 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 04:53 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>
>> I'm still not convinced that we need either. I share Christoph's concern
>> that we would make our life harder for almost no gain. It's probably a
>> very small group of users (if it exists at all) that wants to add new
>> block drivers themselves, but at the same time can't run upstream qemu.
>>
>
> The first part of your argument may be true, but the second isn't.  No 
> user can run upstream qemu.git.  It's not tested or supported, and has 
> no backwards compatibility guarantees.

Yes, it does have backwards compatibility guarantees.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori