Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] block: Allow JSON filenames

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 08.05.2014 um 20:12 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> This series acts as some kind of alternative or v6 to the "block/json:
> Add JSON protocol driver" series. It makes bdrv_open() parse filenames
> prefixed by "json:" as JSON objects (discarding the prefix beforehand)
> and then use the resulting QDict as the options for the block device to
> be opened with a NULL filename.
> 
> The purpose of this is that it may sometimes be desirable to specify
> options for a block device where only a filename can be given, e.g., for
> backing files. Using this should obviously be the exception, but it is
> nice to have if actually needed.
> 
> 
> After having written this series, I do indeed agree that it is much
> nicer than the old version of having a dedicated "virtual" block driver
> for this purpose.
> 
> Patches 1 and 2 are taken directly from the block/json v3, patch 4 has
> been enriched by an additional scenario (options given both directly and
> through the filename) and its comments have been adapted to the new
> implementation.

Thanks, applied all to the block branch.

Kevin