Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] geometry: Call backend function to detect geometry and blocksize

2014-11-28 Thread Markus Armbruster
Ekaterina Tumanova tuman...@linux.vnet.ibm.com writes: hd_geometry_guess function autodetects the drive geometry. This patch adds a block backend call, that probes the backing device geometry. If the inner driver method is implemented and succeeds (currently only DASDs), the blkconf_geometry

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] geometry: Call backend function to detect geometry and blocksize

2014-11-28 Thread Markus Armbruster
Ekaterina Tumanova tuman...@linux.vnet.ibm.com writes: hd_geometry_guess function autodetects the drive geometry. This patch adds a block backend call, that probes the backing device geometry. If the inner driver method is implemented and succeeds (currently only DASDs), the blkconf_geometry

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] geometry: Call backend function to detect geometry and blocksize

2014-11-28 Thread Ekaterina Tumanova
On 11/28/2014 01:10 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Ekaterina Tumanova tuman...@linux.vnet.ibm.com writes: hd_geometry_guess function autodetects the drive geometry. This patch adds a block backend call, that probes the backing device geometry. If the inner driver method is implemented and

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] geometry: Call backend function to detect geometry and blocksize

2014-11-19 Thread Ekaterina Tumanova
hd_geometry_guess function autodetects the drive geometry. This patch adds a block backend call, that probes the backing device geometry. If the inner driver method is implemented and succeeds (currently only DASDs), the blkconf_geometry will pass-through the backing device geometry.