On 25.07.19 19:00, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 7/25/19 10:57 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> Several vmdk subformats do not work with iotest 126, so disable them.
>>
>> (twoGbMaxExtentSparse actually should work, but fixing that is a bit
>> difficult. The problem is that the vmdk descriptor file will contain a
>> referenc to "image:base.vmdk", which the block layer cannot open because
>
> reference
>
>> it does not know the protocol "image". This is not trivial to solve,
>> because I suppose real protocols like "http://; should be supported.
>> Making vmdk treat all paths with a potential protocol prefix that the
>> block layer does not recognize as plain files seems a bit weird,
>> though. Ignoring this problem does not seem too bad.)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz
>> ---
>> tests/qemu-iotests/126 | 6 ++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> Are you aiming to get any of this series in -rc3, or is it firmly 4.2
> material?
No bug fix is ever firmly -next material. However, the bugs aren’t
regressions and not dramatic, so we don’t need to force it into 4.1.
If I had a strong opinion myself on where to place this series, I’d have
given it a for-4.x tag. I didn’t, because I don’t.
Max
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