Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Geometry and blocksize support for backing devices

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>]

Am 19.11.2014 um 11:17 schrieb Ekaterina Tumanova:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm sorry for the recent spam. I messed up during code submission last time.
> So please ignore any previous notes you received from me and answer only to
> this thread.
> 
> This is the rework of the geometry+blocksize patch, which was
> recently discussed here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg01148.html
> 
> Markus suggested that we only detect blocksize and geometry for DASDs.
> 
> According to this agreement new version contains DASD special casing.
> The driver methods are implemented only for "host_device" and inner hdev_xxx
> functions check if the backing storage is a DASD by means of
> BIODASDINFO2 ioctl.
> 
> Original patchset can be found here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-07/msg03791.html

I have done some review on the patches itself, but the overall direction if this is the way to do for the block layer has to come from Kevin, Stefan or Markus.

Christian