Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/12] block/json: Add JSON protocol driver

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 10.04.2014 20:43, 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 do understand that Kevin has reservations against this series, 
but as long as he doesn't explicitly ask me to reimplement this in 
bdrv_open() without an own block driver (which I'd more or less gladly 
do), I do not see issues why this series should not be merged.

Max