Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v5 03/38] blockdev: Allow creation of BDS trees without BB

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri 18 Sep 2015 05:22:38 PM CEST, Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> If the "id" field is missing from the options given to blockdev-add,
> just omit the BlockBackend and create the BlockDriverState tree alone.
>
> However, if "id" is missing, "node-name" must be specified; otherwise,
> the BDS tree would no longer be accessible.
>
> Many BDS options which are not parsed by bdrv_open() (like caching)
> cannot be specified for these BB-less BDS trees yet. A future patch will
> remove this limitation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Berto