Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] Add support for fd: protocol

[Corey Bryant <bryntcor@us.ibm.com>]

On 07/26/2011 10:05 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 26.07.2011 15:02, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
>> >  I have to say I really hate it.  We've been working hard on getting rid
>> >  of special cases in the qemu block layer, and this sprinkles them all
>> >  over.  I'd recommend to fix your security model instead.
> I think the problem here is more with the implementation that with the
> intention.
>
> I agree that you just can't do this. A patch adding support for a fd:
> protocol should touch block/fd.c and nothing else. You can add some
> supporting patches that extend the generic block layer to support e.g.
> formats that can't reopen. However, if you touch the code of other block
> drivers, you're doing it wrong.
>
> Kevin
>
>

I'll look into this approach, but on the surface it seems like this 
could prevent a lot of code reuse in block/raw-posix.c.

Regards,
Corey