From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53293) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX9Z5-0001VC-1k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:03:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX9Yz-0008T1-6W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:03:06 -0400 References: <1437414365-11881-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <55E70F9B.20309@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:02:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1437414365-11881-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EC9ugFonP1KbWAHAaKOcM88FJJATX2qJE" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/38] blockdev: BlockBackend and media List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Max Reitz , qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: Kevin Wolf , Alberto Garcia , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Stefan Hajnoczi , John Snow This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --EC9ugFonP1KbWAHAaKOcM88FJJATX2qJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07/20/2015 11:45 AM, Max Reitz wrote: > First of all: Thank you, Eric and Berto, for reviewing v3! And thank > you, Fam, for at least having a peek at it and being confident enough t= o > base a series of your own on it. :-) >=20 > This series reworks a lot regarding BlockBackend and media. Basically, > it allows empty BlockBackends, that is BBs without a BDS tree. >=20 > Before this series, empty drives are represented by a BlockBackend with= > an empty BDS attached to it (a BDS with a NULL driver). However, now we= > have BlockBackends, thus an empty drive should be represented by a > BlockBackend without any BDS tree attached to it. This is what this > series does. We've obviously missed 2.4; but now that 2.5 is open, are there plans to get this series in sooner rather than later? Wen's work on dynamically adding/deleting children from a quorum would benefit from the ability to create a BDS without an associated BB, which in turn would help the COLO work. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --EC9ugFonP1KbWAHAaKOcM88FJJATX2qJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV5w+bAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqqCsH/jk/lWiV+2nhBTvwTrdo8ieD rIohbAXWWJEtGN6FkRewx2IIzQCmVsQW1MkAInAdYkVezYmU6nYSxcplX/DdPSZO GUQm0D7M6QEZO11mZQx6Ap4H3XjG9OxSspfdR3LEjgOzVHai5U3Xm6LaplBlmrH7 jupZUgK67HYmIJAhUrJCEPAucP7NYqLIyFlHD8IV/I0PgmrbvF/od1JC3XpbYneb Ymlt/rsZOUMFbIIyhzQo81NUzCC2EWCgCkTBqC2/XhUYSrzpWOl1rmibiYnax9EU fdyk2y5/vaoMWD2gqQCrQo20yfj0NaUNuWqdsw+k71id6XFBCLrdmcOlZwOMGLA= =OJ58 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EC9ugFonP1KbWAHAaKOcM88FJJATX2qJE--