Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/17] qemu-img: sort block formats in help message

[Jeff Cody]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:40:00PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Wed, 05/14 09:27, Mike Day wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Jeff Cody recently wanted to eliminate duplicate entries in the list.  I
> > > thought part of your intention was to address the duplicates with your
> > > patch.
> > >
> > > We can back out the sequence API if it's not supported on older glib but
> > > it would be nice to eliminate duplicates later, too.
> > 
> > I agree. I can submit an additional patch that uses an older API.
> > What, exactly is the cause of duplicate entries in the list?
> 
> For example in protocol drivers, multiple BlockDrivers are registered with the
> same format name, although the protocol names are different:
> 
>     nbd
>     gluster
>     sheepdog
> 
> In my build I see 3 nbd's.
> 
> Fam

Duplicates should no longer be printed on qemu/master - commit
e855e4fb7b has been applied, as of April 29th 2014.