From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: allow toggling host cache between writeback and writethrough
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:02:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341471743.18786.12.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF5388C.5010306@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 08:47 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 04/07/2012 23:11, Sasha Levin ha scritto:
> > There are two things going on here:
> > 1. Rename VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH to VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE
> > 2. Add a new VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE
> >
> > I'm concerned that the first change is going to break compilation for
> > any code that included linux/virtio-blk.h and used VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH.
>
> That would be nlkt, right? :)
nlkt, lguest, and probably others.
linux/virtio_blk.h is a public kernel header, which is supposed to be
used from userspace - so I assume many others who implemented virtio-blk
for any reason took advantage of that header.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-05 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 13:19 [PATCH] virtio-blk: allow toggling host cache between writeback and writethrough Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 5:55 ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-04 6:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-04 15:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-04 15:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-04 15:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-04 15:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 16:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-04 16:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-04 16:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 16:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 21:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-04 21:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-07-05 6:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-05 6:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 15:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 16:26 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-04 16:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-04 21:11 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-05 6:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-05 7:02 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2012-07-08 23:45 ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-25 1:02 ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-05 18:39 ` Badari Pulavarty
2012-07-06 6:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
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