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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm
From: |
Christoph Hellwig |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm |
Date: |
Tue, 25 May 2010 08:03:15 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 02:25:53PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Currently if someone wants to add a new block format, they have to
> upstream it and wait for a new qemu to be released. With a plugin API,
> they can add a new block format to an existing, supported qemu.
So? Unless we want a stable driver ABI which I fundamentally oppose as
it would make block driver development hell they'd have to wait for
a new release of the block layer. It's really just going to be a lot
of pain for no major gain. qemu releases are frequent enough, and if
users care enough they can also easily patch qemu.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Kevin Wolf, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm,
Christoph Hellwig <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25