On 19.09.18 11:18, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Thu 06 Sep 2018 11:37:08 AM CEST, Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> wrote:
>> 'discard' is one of the basic BlockdevOptions available for all
>> drivers, but it's not handled by bdrv_reopen_prepare() so any attempt
>> to change it results in an error:
>>
>>    (qemu) qemu-io virtio0 "reopen -o discard=on"
>>    Cannot change the option 'discard'
>>
>> Since there's no reason why we shouldn't allow changing it and the
>> implementation is simple let's just do it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>
> 
> A side effect of this change that I hadn't noticed when I sent this
> patch: protocol nodes have the "discard" option set to "unmap" by
> default (by bdrv_inherited_options()), and that sets the BDRV_O_UNMAP
> flag.
> 
> However that flag is cleared during reopen even though the "discard"
> option remains there. So thanks to this patch the flag correctly
> reflects the value of the option after reopen.
> 
> Is it worth sending the patch again with an updated commit message that
> explains this?

I don't know this any better than you. :-)
I have to admit that personally I don't care too much about overly exact
commit messages, but I'm probably just wrong.

Max

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