Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 10/25] block: Add bdrv_dirname()

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri 29 Sep 2017 06:53:32 PM CEST, Max Reitz wrote:
> This function may be implemented by block drivers to derive a directory
> name from a BDS. Concatenating this g_free()-able string with a relative
> filename must result in a valid (not necessarily existing) filename, so
> this is a function that should generally be not implemented by format
> drivers, because this is protocol-specific.
>
> If a BDS's driver does not implement this function, bdrv_dirname() will
> fall through to the BDS's file if it exists. If it does not, the
> exact_filename field will be used to generate a directory name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Berto