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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.3 0/1] block: New command line option --mi
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.3 0/1] block: New command line option --misc format-probing=off |
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Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:36:14 +0000 |
On 23 March 2015 at 10:04, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> First of all, my apologies for being so late with this. I realized
> part way through the current development cycle that I couldn't do both
> the error work and my half of the block probing work we discussed back
> in November, so I punted the latter to the next cycle, missing the one
> little feature I quite obviously could do.
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> Why 2.3?
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> 1. libvirt wants it, the sooner, the better. See the libvirt RFC PATCH
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04457.html
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> 2. The patch is simple, and quite obviously does nothing unless you
> run with --misc format-probing=off.
I'm really dubious about adding new commandline ABI at this point
in the release cycle, especially a whole new option group...
-- PMM