On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:39:30AM +0530, Ashijeet Acharya wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working on trying to add blockdev-add compatibility for the nfs > block driver but before that runtime options need to be separated into > various options rather than just a simple "filename" option. > > I have added the following until now: > a) host > b) port (not sure about this one, do we just use a default port number?) > c) export > d) path (path to the file) > > I have matched these with the URI but still let me know if i have > missed anyone :) > > Now, in order to parse the uri for different runtime options, I have > made two new functions nfs_parse_filename() and nfs_parse_uri() which > is pretty similar to the way how other network block drivers do it. > > Currently we parse the uri in a nfs_client_open() function which takes > 'const char *filename' as one of its parameters but I dont think > that's the right way anymore because we pass 'qemu_opt_get(opts, > "filename")' which is invalid due to no runtime option named > "filename" available anymore. Right? > > While parsing uri we check for the query parameters inside a 'for > loop', so I have moved that too inside > > nfs_parse_uri(const char *filename, QDict *options, Error **errp) > > but the problem is there is no struct NFSClient parameter here, so I > cannot fill up its important fields while parsing the query > parameters. I cannot do the same inside nfs_client_open() because I no > longer parse the uri over there.....OR CAN I? A completely different > approach will work too :) > > I can attach a pastebin link containing a raw patch if you want to get > a clear view but I am afraid it doesn't compile at the moment due to > the problems mentioned above.
Please post the code and annotate the relevant places where you are stuck. Stefan
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