On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:02:23 +0200, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 08:47 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Il 04/07/2012 23:11, Sasha Levin ha scritto: > > > There are two things going on here: > > > 1. Rename VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH to VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE > > > 2. Add a new VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE > > > > > > I'm concerned that the first change is going to break compilation for > > > any code that included linux/virtio-blk.h and used VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH. > > > > That would be nlkt, right? :) > > nlkt, lguest, and probably others. > > linux/virtio_blk.h is a public kernel header, which is supposed to be > used from userspace - so I assume many others who implemented virtio-blk > for any reason took advantage of that header. lguest doesn't have an API, so it can be patched. But if someone else breaks, then yes, we need to define the old name too. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
