[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] vvfat mbr fixes

[Lorenzo Campedelli]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Lorenzo Campedelli wrote:
>
> > I was concerned by having this handling outside of a proper place (i.e. 
> > block-vvfat.c), but if we want to leave it there, wouldn't it be better 
> > to just handle cases which would otherwise fail, and just try to fix the 
> > "fat:" format?
>
> I don't like that option, since it special-cases vvfat to much.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
I agree the fix is ugly, otoh the problem is also a special case...
I don't see a clean way of fixing this, the code in block.c needs to 
know how to handle a vvfat specific filename format.

I'll keep my "works for me" patch waiting for some better fix.

Thanks for your time.
Lorenzo