Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] block: Is name of BlockBackend deprecated with -blockdev parameter?

[Markus Armbruster]

I figure Kevin knows, but you typoed his e-mail address.  I fixed it for
you.

Anton Kuchin <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to switch from -drive parameter to -blockdev + -device and
> having problems. Looks like with this option I have no way to set the
> name of  created BlockBackend, but some QMP and HMP commands are
> trying to find blk with blk_by_name() and fail to locate my device
> (e.g. hmp_commit, qmp_x_bloc_latency_histogram_set ...). Was it
> intentional and BB names are going to be deprecated?
>
> This also seems to be a the case for all block devices hotplugged with
> QMP as they use the same code path.
>
> As far as I understand all named backends are stored in
> monitor_block_backends list, but I can't get what is the point of
> having this list, and why parse_drive() function doesn't call
> monitor_add_blk() like blockdev_init() does with -drive option. Can
> someone give me a hint on this?
>
> I also noticed that some commands fallback to search by qdev_id or
> BDS->node_name,  but at the creation time (both in
> bdrv_assing_node_name and monitor_add_blk) it is already checked that
> names are unique across these namespaces so may be it would be useful
> to introduce generic search function?
>
> Thanks,
> Anton