Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] blockdev: Defer creation of implicit PCI devices for IF_VIRTIO drives

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 June 2015 at 09:18, Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 08.06.2015 um 10:02 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
>> So I would prefer to not have this workaround and doing
>>
>> index c480f64..7627d57 100644
>> --- a/blockdev.c
>> +++ b/blockdev.c
>> @@ -976,17 +976,6 @@ DriveInfo *drive_new(QemuOpts *all_opts, 
>> BlockInterfaceType block_default_type)
>>          goto fail;
>>      }
>>
>> -    if (type == IF_VIRTIO && !done_orphan_check
>> -        && arch_type == QEMU_ARCH_S390X) {
>> -        /* Virtio drives created on the command line get an implicit device
>> -         * created for them. For non-s390x command line drives, the creation
>> -         * of the implicit device is deferred to drive_check_orphaned. 
>> (S390x
>> -         * is special-cased purely for backwards compatibility.)
>> -         * Drives created via the monitor (hotplugged) do not get the
>> -         * magic implicit device created for them.
>> -         */
>> -        create_implicit_virtio_device(qdict_get_str(bs_opts, "id"), 
>> devaddr);
>> -    }
>>
>>      filename = qemu_opt_get(legacy_opts, "file");
>>
>> actually enables the first command line to work as well.
>> So lets get rid of the s390 special handling

Cool, that certainly makes the code nicer not to have to keep the
special case. I'll respin with that change folded in.

>> (but I really appreciate that you cared about s390)

Non-x86 architectures have to stick together, you know :-)

> As a side note, I cannot test this with libvirt right now, as current qemu 
> broke
> libvirts capability query
> see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01806.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01488.html

There's a fix for that that I've just now committed to master.

thanks
-- PMM