Re: [Qemu-devel] Commit 8b33d9ee (was not on list)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 09/09/2010 06:35 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > commit 8b33d9eeba91422ee2d73b6936ad57262d18cf5a
> > Author: Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>
> > Date:   Wed Sep 8 17:09:15 2010 -0500
> >
> >      Revert "Make default invocation of block drivers safer (v3)"
> >
> >      This reverts commit 79368c81bf8cf93864d7afc88b81b05d8f0a2c90.
> >
> >      Conflicts:
> >
> >          block.c
> >
> >      I haven't been able to come up with a solution yet for the corruption 
> > caused by
> >      unaligned requests from the IDE disk so revert until a solution can be 
> > written.
> >
> >      Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>
> >      
> I posted a fix for it on Tuesday.
>    

It was a revert but yeah, I guess I should have posted first.

I don't think your fix is good enough.  I had the same thought but it's 
an unbounded memory allocation.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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