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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] introduce a dynamic library to expose qemu
 block API
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, =?UTF-8?B?TGx1w61z?= <xscript@gmx.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Am 18.07.2012 15:51, schrieb Andreas F=C3=A4rber:
> Am 18.07.2012 10:51, schrieb Wenchao Xia:
>>   Hi, following is API draft, prototypes were taken from qemu/block.h,
>> and the API prefix is changed frpm bdrv to qbdrvs, to declare related
>> object is BlockDriverState, not BlockDriver. [...]

After the refactoring that Markus is working on it won't refer to a
BlockDriverState, but to a BlockBackend. (And changes like this make
quite clear why the internals of the current block layer are not
suitable as a public API. The API needs to be defined in a separate
layer than can abstract such changes away.)

> So let the bikeshedding begin: ;)
>=20
> What about qbds_ prefix rather than qbdrvs_? I find the proposed mixtur=
e
> of acronym (q for QEMU, b for Block, s for State) and abbreviation (drv
> as in Driver) a bit ugly.
>=20
> Or just simply go for qblock - might be better memorable. :)

Yes, something like qblk that isn't tied to internals sounds better.

Kevin