Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 0/5] block: Drop BDS.filename

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 10:52:44PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote:
> Regarding the fear that this might change current behavior, especially
> for libvirt which used filenames to identify nodes in the BDS graph:
> Since bdrv_open() already calls bdrv_refresh_filename() today, and
> apparently everything works fine, this series will most likely not break
> anything. The only thing that will change is if the BDS graph is
> dynamically reconfigured at runtime, and in that case it's most likely a
> bug fix. Also, I don't think libvirt supports such cases already.

I haven't reviewed the patches but seems like a perfectly reasonable
thing to do at the beginning of the QEMU 2.5 development cycle.  If
anything comes up there will be time ot fix it before the next QEMU
version is released.

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