Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-3.1 00/10] Move virtio-ccw devices to separate files

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 25.07.2018 15:48, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:20:14 +0200
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> For more fine-grained control over the build process, it would be good
>> to have the possibility to disable single virtio devices, too. We already
>> have CONFIG_VIRTIO_* switches in the Makefiles, but currently all
>> virtio-ccw devices are compiled in anyway. Move them to separate files
>> so we can disable them in the Makefile more easily.
>>
>> NB: I did not move virtio-blk-ccw and virtio-net-ccw to a separate file
>> yet since they are essential for the s390x-virtio machine and thus it
>> does IMHO not make much sense to disable net and blk. But if somebody
>> needs that possibility, too, I can add two more patches on top...
> 
> I understand virtio-net-ccw (autogenerated network devices), but why
> virtio-blk-ccw?

Because we set mc->block_default_type = IF_VIRTIO ==> if you disable
virtio-blk, the CLI options like -hda and -cdrom would not work anymore.

> Regardless, it might make sense to split them out so that we get a
> slimmed-down virtio-ccw.c.

OK.

 Thomas