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From: | Anton Kuchin |
Subject: | [Qemu-block] [RFC] block: Is name of BlockBackend deprecated with -blockdev parameter? |
Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:10:30 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 |
Hello,I'm trying to switch from -drive parameter to -blockdev + -device and having problems. Looks like with this option I have no way to set the name of created BlockBackend, but some QMP and HMP commands are trying to find blk with blk_by_name() and fail to locate my device (e.g. hmp_commit, qmp_x_bloc_latency_histogram_set ...). Was it intentional and BB names are going to be deprecated?
This also seems to be a the case for all block devices hotplugged with QMP as they use the same code path.
As far as I understand all named backends are stored in monitor_block_backends list, but I can't get what is the point of having this list, and why parse_drive() function doesn't call monitor_add_blk() like blockdev_init() does with -drive option. Can someone give me a hint on this?
I also noticed that some commands fallback to search by qdev_id or BDS->node_name, but at the creation time (both in bdrv_assing_node_name and monitor_add_blk) it is already checked that names are unique across these namespaces so may be it would be useful to introduce generic search function?
Thanks, Anton
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