On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 04:43:54PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This option was only added to allow 'null-co://' and 'null-aio://' as
> filenames, its value never served any actual purpose and was ignored.
> Nevertheless it was accepted as '-drive driver=null,filename=foo'.
> 
> The correct way to enable the protocol prefixes (and that without adding
> a useless -drive option) is implementing .bdrv_parse_filename. This is
> what this patch does.
> 
> Technically, this is an incompatible change, but the null block driver
> is only used for benchmarking, testing and debugging, and an option
> without effect isn't likely to be used by anyone anyway, so no bad
> effects are to be expected.
> 
> Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/null.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>

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