Re: [PATCH v2 01/33] block: Add BlockDriver.is_format

2020-02-11 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Tue 04 Feb 2020 06:08:16 PM CET, Max Reitz wrote: > We want to unify child_format and child_file at some point. One of the > important things that set format drivers apart from other drivers is > that they do not expect other format nodes under them (except in the > backing chain). That means

Re: [PATCH v2 01/33] block: Add BlockDriver.is_format

2020-02-06 Thread Max Reitz
On 05.02.20 14:51, Eric Blake wrote: > On 2/4/20 11:08 AM, Max Reitz wrote: >> We want to unify child_format and child_file at some point.  One of the >> important things that set format drivers apart from other drivers is >> that they do not expect other format nodes under them (except in the >>

Re: [PATCH v2 01/33] block: Add BlockDriver.is_format

2020-02-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 2/4/20 11:08 AM, Max Reitz wrote: We want to unify child_format and child_file at some point. One of the important things that set format drivers apart from other drivers is that they do not expect other format nodes under them (except in the backing chain). That means we need something on

[PATCH v2 01/33] block: Add BlockDriver.is_format

2020-02-04 Thread Max Reitz
We want to unify child_format and child_file at some point. One of the important things that set format drivers apart from other drivers is that they do not expect other format nodes under them (except in the backing chain). That means we need something on which to distinguish format drivers