Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v8] ssh: switch from libssh2 to libssh

2019-06-13 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Hi Pino, Please Cc the different maintainers (doing that for you). On 6/13/19 8:11 AM, Pino Toscano wrote: > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead > of libssh2. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh2: > - easier API for authentication (for

[Qemu-block] [PATCH v8] ssh: switch from libssh2 to libssh

2019-06-13 Thread Pino Toscano
Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead of libssh2. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh2: - easier API for authentication (for example for using ssh-agent) - easier API for known_hosts handling - supports newer types of keys in known_hosts Use