On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> We have code for a quite a few block formats. While I trust that all
> of these formats are useful at least for some people in some
> circumstances, some of them are of a kind that friends don't let
> friends use in production.
>
> This patch provides an optional block format whitelist, default off.
> If a whitelist is configured with --block-drv-whitelist, QEMU proper
> can use only whitelisted formats. Other programs, like qemu-img, are
> not affected.
>
> Drivers for formats off the whitelist still participate in format
> probing, to ensure all programs probe exactly the same. Without that,
> QEMU proper would be prone to treat images with a format off the
> whitelist as raw when the image's format is probed.
>
[..snip..]
> diff --git a/create_config b/create_config
> index 30d0487..2f052ae 100755
> --- a/create_config
> +++ b/create_config
> @@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ case $line in
> done
> echo ""
> ;;
> + CONFIG_BDRV_WHITELIST=*)
> + echo "#define CONFIG_BDRV_WHITELIST \\"
> + for drv in ${line#*=}; do
> + echo " \"${drv}\",\\"
printf ' "%s", \' ${drv}
feels less obfuscated
[..snip..]
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