Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] raw-posix.c: Make physical devices usable in QEMU

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Programmingkid
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Jul 16, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:02:26AM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 9, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 01:33:23PM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>>> Make physical devices like a USB flash drive or a CDROM drive work in 
>>>>> QEMU. With
>>>>> this patch I can use a USB flash drive like a hard drive. Before this 
>>>>> patch,
>>>>> QEMU would just quit with a message like "resource busy".
>>>>
>>>> The commit message and the description are missing "on Mac OS X".  It
>>>> should be clear right away that this applies to Mac only.  This works
>>>> fine on Linux and probably other host OSes.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that should have been done. Did you see any issues with the code?
>>
>> QEMU shouldn't silently open a different file than the one given by the
>> user.  The user should give the exact device file they want.  If there
>> is magic behavior it needs to be documented, but I don't see a reason
>> why that's necessary in the case of device files.
>
> I think you are reviewing an older patch. The newest one doesn't do that.

I don't see a more recent patch on the mailing list.  What is the
Message-Id of your latest patch email?