Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] nbd-server: Allow node name for nbd-server-add

2016-07-15 Thread Max Reitz
On 15.07.2016 17:18, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/15/2016 07:36 AM, Max Reitz wrote: >> On 14.07.2016 23:36, Eric Blake wrote: >>> On 07/14/2016 07:28 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: There is no reason why an NBD server couldn't be started for any node, even if it's not on the top level. This

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] nbd-server: Allow node name for nbd-server-add

2016-07-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/15/2016 07:36 AM, Max Reitz wrote: > On 14.07.2016 23:36, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/14/2016 07:28 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >>> There is no reason why an NBD server couldn't be started for any node, >>> even if it's not on the top level. This converts nbd-server-add to >>> accept a node-name.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] nbd-server: Allow node name for nbd-server-add

2016-07-15 Thread Max Reitz
On 14.07.2016 23:36, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/14/2016 07:28 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> There is no reason why an NBD server couldn't be started for any node, >> even if it's not on the top level. This converts nbd-server-add to >> accept a node-name. >> >> Note that there is a semantic difference

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] nbd-server: Allow node name for nbd-server-add

2016-07-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/14/2016 07:28 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > There is no reason why an NBD server couldn't be started for any node, > even if it's not on the top level. This converts nbd-server-add to > accept a node-name. > > Note that there is a semantic difference between using a BlockBackend > name and the

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] nbd-server: Allow node name for nbd-server-add

2016-07-14 Thread Kevin Wolf
There is no reason why an NBD server couldn't be started for any node, even if it's not on the top level. This converts nbd-server-add to accept a node-name. Note that there is a semantic difference between using a BlockBackend name and the node name of its root: In the former case, the NBD