Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add generic drive hotplugging

[Markus Armbruster]

Alexander Graf <address@hidden> writes:

> The monitor command for hotplugging is in i386 specific code. This is just
> plain wrong, as S390 just learned how to do hotplugging too and needs to
> get drives for that.
>
> So let's add a generic copy to generic code that handles drive_add in a
> way that doesn't have pci dependencies.
>
> I'm not fully happy with the patch as is. IMHO there should only be a
> single target agnostic drive_hot_add function available. How we could
> potentially fit IF_SCSI in there I don't know though.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>

Yes, we need a target-agnostic command to add host block devices.  All
we have now is x86's drive_add, which isn't target-agnostic, because its
normal function is to add both host and guest part, and the latter is
entangled with PCI.

Your patch creates a copy of x86's drive_add with the guest bits
stripped from the code, so it's usable for non-PCI targets.  Guest bits
remain in the syntax (first argument, useless baggage with your
command).  Ugly.

I'm working on a clean solution for this problem.  If you must have a
solution right away, and ugly is fine, then your patch should do for
now.

In my opinion, pci_add, pci_del and drive_add all need to go.  They're
insufficiently general, and they fail to separate host and guest parts.