Am 18.10.2023 um 12:52 hat David Woodhouse geschrieben: > > Actually, how does this play together with xen_config_dev_blk()? This > > looks like it tried to implement a very similar thing (which is IF_XEN > > even already existed). > > Ah yes, thanks for spotting that! I hadn't been looking at the xenfv > > > Are we now trying to attach each if=xen disk twice in the 'xenpv' > > machine? Or if something prevents this, is it dead code. > > I suspect we end up creating them twice (and probably thus failing to > lock the backing file). > > [...] > > ... but this just reinforces what I said there about "if > qmp_device_add() can find the damn bus and do this right, why do we > have to litter it through platform code?"
Indeed, if you can do -device, it's always the best option. For block devices not the least because it gives you a way to use -blockdev with it. I'm happy whenever I see a drive_get() call go away. Kevin
