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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] QCFG: a new mechanism to replace QemuOpts
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>

Am 14.03.2011 18:48, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> I've got a spec written up at http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QCFG.  
> Initial code is in my QAPI tree.

One question about a small detail on this wiki page:

> typedef struct BlockdevConfig {
>     char * file;
>     struct BlockdevConfig * backing_file;
> 
>     struct BlockdevConfig * next;
> } BlockdevConfig;

What is the 'next' pointer used for, are you going to store a list of
all -blockdev options used? And why isn't it a QLIST or something?

Kevin