From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54894 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGupF-0005gA-QC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 10:09:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGupA-0008KX-ON for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 10:09:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGupA-0008KS-GG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 10:09:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4BFBDA07.7080607@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 16:09:11 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm References: <20100519192222.GD61706@ncolin.muc.de> <4BF5A9D2.5080609@codemonkey.ws> <4BF91937.2070801@redhat.com> <4BFBAE46.5050801@redhat.com> <4BFBB3C1.9020905@redhat.com> <4BFBCFAC.9070807@codemonkey.ws> <4BFBD63D.5040900@redhat.com> <4BFBD6D4.2040707@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4BFBD6D4.2040707@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brunner Am 25.05.2010 15:55, schrieb Avi Kivity: > 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. The second part was basically meant to say "developers don't count here". Kevin