Am 09.05.2011 11:51, schrieb Markus Armbruster: > This patch series is about purging the "type hint" from the block > layer. My previous series cleaned up improper uses it. Remaining > uses are info block and qdevs ide-drive, scsi-disk. > > ide-drive and scsi-disk can either act as disk or as CD drive. They > use their drive's type hint to decide between disk and CD. This is > unclean. Disk vs. CD needs to be in qdev, not BlockDriverState, > because it belongs to the drive's guest part. > > Split them into separate devices for disk and CD. Keep the old ones > for backward compatibility. > > Remove the type hint from info block. Its value is unreliable anyway. > libvirt doesn't use it. > > I posted v1 quite some time ago. Since we were working towards a > release then, we decided to take only the bonus bug fixes (PATCH 1-3), > and revisit the rest later. Which has turned out to be "somewhat" > later than anticpiated. Sorry about that.
Thanks, applied to the block branch. Kevin
