[GEDI] [PATCH 0/2] Fix the generic image creation code

[Denis V. Lunev]

On 3/26/20 4:12 AM, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> The recent patches from Max Reitz allowed some block drivers to not
> provide the .bdrv_co_create_opts and still allow qemu-img to
> create/format images as long as the image is already existing
> (that is the case with various block storage drivers like nbd/iscsi/nvme, etc)
>
> However it was found out that some places in the code depend on the
> .bdrv_co_create_opts/.create_opts to be != NULL to decide if to allow
> image creation.
>
> To avoid adding failback code to all these places, just make generic failback
> code be used by the drivers that need it, so that for outside user, there
> is no diffirence if failback was used or not.
>
> Best regards,
> 	Maxim Levitsky
>
> Maxim Levitsky (2):
>   block: pass BlockDriver reference to the .bdrv_co_create
>   block: trickle down the fallback image creation function use to the
>     block drivers
>
>  block.c                   | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  block/crypto.c            |  3 ++-
>  block/file-posix.c        | 11 +++++++++--
>  block/file-win32.c        |  4 +++-
>  block/gluster.c           |  3 ++-
>  block/iscsi.c             | 16 ++++------------
>  block/nbd.c               |  6 ++++++
>  block/nfs.c               |  4 +++-
>  block/nvme.c              |  3 +++
>  block/parallels.c         |  3 ++-
>  block/qcow.c              |  3 ++-
>  block/qcow2.c             |  4 +++-
>  block/qed.c               |  3 ++-
>  block/raw-format.c        |  4 +++-
>  block/rbd.c               |  3 ++-
>  block/sheepdog.c          |  4 +++-
>  block/ssh.c               |  4 +++-
>  block/vdi.c               |  4 +++-
>  block/vhdx.c              |  3 ++-
>  block/vmdk.c              |  4 +++-
>  block/vpc.c               |  6 ++++--
>  include/block/block.h     |  7 +++++++
>  include/block/block_int.h |  3 ++-
>  23 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den at openvz.org>