Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] SCSI-Hotdel: Implement drive_hot_del

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 10/01/09 09:54, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. The reason why I'd (still :-)) like
> to stick to the non-qdev variant is because I would want
> the patch to be applicable to older qemu releases for various
> reasons, and backporting all the required qdev  changes does
> not seem to be a reasonable option (but please tell me if you
> think this would make sense)

Yes, backporting all qdev isn't going to fly.

Note that support for looking up drives by name is available in 0.11+ 
only too, so you might have to stick with the lookup by pci address, 
depending on which versions you plan to backport it ...

cheers,
  Gerd