Paolo asked me to write such a driver based on his textual specification alone. The first patch captures his email in full, the rest re-quotes parts that are being implemented.
The tree compiles at each patch. The series passes "make check-block". "block/raw.c" is not removed because I wanted to keep it out of my series and out of my brain. Disclaimer: I couldn't care less if the raw block driver was public domain or AGPLv3+, as long as it qualifies as free software. I'm only trying to do what Paolo asked of me. Laszlo Ersek (7): add skeleton for BSD licensed "raw" BlockDriver raw_bsd: emit debug events in bdrv_co_readv() and bdrv_co_writev() raw_bsd: add raw_create() raw_bsd: introduce "special members" raw_bsd: add raw_create_options raw_bsd: register bdrv_raw switch raw block driver from "raw.o" to "raw_bsd.o" block/Makefile.objs | 2 +- block/raw_bsd.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) create mode 100644 block/raw_bsd.c