Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Add remove_boot_device_path() function for hot-unplug device

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 28/04/2014 11:38, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto:
> > > Doesn't Jun's patch fix a dangling pointer?  If so, that would come
> > > first anyway.
> It removes pointers from a "dead" list, and it only deals with
> some symptom.

Yeah, but dangling pointers are bad anyway.  I think we should include 
Jun's patch.

Paolo

> Even if you remove the device from the list, the guest still uses
> the previous list. The only difference is that you can now
> hot-plug/hot-unplug a disk with a boot-order index.
> However, strange things will happen when you reboot the guest,
> one of them may be that it actually works :)