Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] BlockBackends, nodes and guest devices

2016-06-27 Thread Max Reitz
On 27.06.2016 18:38, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 27.06.2016 um 18:13 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: >> I'm not sure if WCE truly is a guest device property, but adding it as a >> guest device property and then syncing it to the BB makes sense (as done >> in patch 7). > > It is truly a guest device property

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] BlockBackends, nodes and guest devices

2016-06-27 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 27.06.2016 um 18:13 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > I'm not sure if WCE truly is a guest device property, but adding it as a > guest device property and then syncing it to the BB makes sense (as done > in patch 7). It is truly a guest device property. Physical hardware can have a volatile write ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] BlockBackends, nodes and guest devices

2016-06-27 Thread Max Reitz
On 23.06.2016 16:36, Kevin Wolf wrote: > I am relatively confident to say that everything that should use a > BlockBackend, does so by now. Almost all users create their own anonymous > BlockBackend internally and use that. The user configures the BB only > indirectly using the configuration method

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] BlockBackends, nodes and guest devices

2016-06-23 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 23/06/2016 16:36, Kevin Wolf wrote: > But of course I'm aware that there probably isn't a clear right or wrong, and > that I might be missing important details, so this needs to be discussed in > advance before I go and implement the full thing instead of just small example > patches. > > So