Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 25.05.2010 15:55, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 05/25/2010 04:53 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>
>> I'm still not convinced that we need either. I share Christoph's concern
>> that we would make our life harder for almost no gain. It's probably a
>> very small group of users (if it exists at all) that wants to add new
>> block drivers themselves, but at the same time can't run upstream qemu.
>>
>>    
> 
> The first part of your argument may be true, but the second isn't.  No 
> user can run upstream qemu.git.  It's not tested or supported, and has 
> no backwards compatibility guarantees.

The second part was basically meant to say "developers don't count here".

Kevin