[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] add support for drive ids.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 07/16/09 15:53, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > -drive accepts the new id= now, allowing to explicitely name your
> > drives.  They will show up with that name in "info block" if specified,
> > otherwise the existing namimg scheme is used to autogenerate one.
> >
> > There is also a new function to lookup drives by name.  Not used yet.
> > The plan is to link disk drivers and drives using the drive id instead
> > of passing around pointers to BlockDriveState.
>
> Confusing.  Stick with "id" or "name", but use the same everywhere?

Yep, noticed myself while continuing hacking.  I'll respin with a few 
more patches on top of that later today.

cheers,
  Gerd