Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/10] block: Add a mechanism for passing a block driver a block configuration

2018-06-11 Thread Ari Sundholm
Ping regarding this patch and the ones following it in the series. I would very much appreciate any feedback on the new callback and related plumbing I'm proposing for passing things like the guest block device sector size to block drivers (such as the filter type one proposed earlier in this

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/10] block: Add a mechanism for passing a block driver a block configuration

2018-06-08 Thread Ari Sundholm
A block driver may need to know about the block configuration, most critically the sector sizes, of a block backend for alignment purposes or for some other reason. It doesn't seem like qemu has an existing mechanism for a block backend to convey the required information to the relevant block