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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] block: Add driver specific options
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] block: Add driver specific options |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:29:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:13:34PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Instead of constantly keeping complaining that we need this big -blockdev
> things, let's start attacking individual parts of the project. Here is the
> first part, allowing block drivers to provide additional -drive options.
>
> Any options that isn't processed by the block layer is passed to the driver
> which can use them. If it doesn't, you get an error message like today. At the
> end of this series you can specify:
>
> -drive file=test.qcow2,lazy_refcounts=on
>
> This doesn't include a way to specify options for backing files yet, but
> I don't think there's anything blocking such extensions on top.
>
> Kevin Wolf (7):
> block: Add options QDict to .bdrv_open()
> block: Add options QDict to bdrv_open() prototype
> Add qdict_clone_shallow()
> block: Add options QDict to bdrv_open_common()
> qemu-option: Add qemu_opts_absorb_qdict()
> block: Support driver specific options in drive_init()
> qcow2: Allow lazy refcounts to be enabled on the command line
>
> block.c | 81
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> block/blkverify.c | 2 +-
> block/bochs.c | 2 +-
> block/cloop.c | 2 +-
> block/cow.c | 2 +-
> block/dmg.c | 2 +-
> block/parallels.c | 2 +-
> block/qcow.c | 2 +-
> block/qcow2-cluster.c | 2 +-
> block/qcow2.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
> block/qcow2.h | 1 +
> block/qed.c | 4 +--
> block/raw.c | 2 +-
> block/vdi.c | 2 +-
> block/vmdk.c | 4 +--
> block/vpc.c | 2 +-
> block/vvfat.c | 2 +-
> blockdev.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> hw/xen_disk.c | 2 +-
> include/block/block.h | 4 +--
> include/block/block_int.h | 3 +-
> include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h | 2 ++
> include/qemu/option.h | 1 +
> qemu-img.c | 6 ++--
> qemu-io.c | 2 +-
> qemu-nbd.c | 2 +-
> qobject/qdict.c | 22 +++++++++++++
> util/qemu-option.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 28 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.1.2
>
>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
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