From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Benoît Canet" <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] block/json: Add JSON protocol driver
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:16:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <532C81E1.2000506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394232956-27852-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com>
On 07.03.2014 23:55, Max Reitz wrote:
> This series adds a passthrough JSON protocol block driver. Its filenames
> are JSON objects prefixed by "json:". The objects are used as options
> for opening another block device which will be the child of the JSON
> device. Regarding this child device, the JSON driver behaves nearly the
> same as raw_bsd in that it is just a passthrough driver. The only
> difference is probably that the JSON driver identifies itself as a block
> filter, in contrast to raw_bsd.
>
> The purpose of this driver is that it may sometimes be desirable to
> specify options for a block device where only a filename can be given,
> e.g., for backing files. Using this should obviously be the exception,
> but it is nice to have if actually needed.
Ping – I'd appreciate it if someone could review patches 7 and 12. :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-21 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 22:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] block/json: Add JSON protocol driver Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/12] qdict: Add qdict_join() Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/12] check-qdict: Add test for qdict_join() Max Reitz
2014-03-08 0:21 ` Eric Blake
2014-03-09 12:27 ` Benoît Canet
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/12] block: Add "has_single_child" field for drivers Max Reitz
2014-03-09 12:15 ` Benoît Canet
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/12] block/json: Add JSON protocol driver Max Reitz
2014-03-09 12:18 ` Benoît Canet
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/12] block/json: Add functions for cache control Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/12] block/json: Add functions for writing zeroes etc Max Reitz
2014-03-09 12:19 ` Benoît Canet
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/12] block/json: Add bdrv_co_get_block_status() Max Reitz
2014-03-24 14:15 ` Benoît Canet
2014-04-08 13:15 ` Max Reitz
2014-04-08 20:53 ` Peter Lieven
2014-04-10 17:31 ` Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/12] block/json: Add ioctl etc Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/12] block/json: Add bdrv_get_specific_info() Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/12] block/raw_bsd: " Max Reitz
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/12] block/qapi: Ignore filters on top for format name Max Reitz
2014-03-09 12:22 ` Benoît Canet
2014-03-07 22:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/12] iotests: Add test for the JSON protocol Max Reitz
2014-03-24 14:24 ` Benoît Canet
2014-03-21 18:16 ` Max Reitz [this message]
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