Re: [Qemu-block] [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 07/02/2018 10:04 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.06.2018 um 13:45 hat Peter Krempa geschrieben:
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 13:41:06 +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Am 25.06.2018 um 11:53 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:25:13PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>>>>> Am 22.06.2018 um 15:36 hat Christian Borntraeger geschrieben:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> I'll look into werror/rerror support for usb-storage. It shouldn't be
>>> too hard, though it's strictly speaking a separate problem related to
>>> using -blockdev rather than option deprecation.
>>>
>>> If Peter wants to wait for QEMU support before converting werror/rerror
>>
>> Definitely. I don't want to keep around yet another hack that will
>> satisfy one specific case and then add another capability for it. We
>> should then gate the moving of the feature based on the presence of
>> werror for usb-storage.
>>
>>> to -device, maybe it would make sense to split your patch for v2 so that
>>> geometry and serial can get fixed right away?
>>
>> Yes this can be done right away.
> 
> Has serial/gemoetry been fixed meanwhile and will it make it into the
> next release?

I cannot find an archive that has it, but it is on the libvirt mailing
list as "[libvirt] [PATCH v3] qemu: format serial and geometry on frontend disk 
device".
Review seems done, but it has missed libvirt 4.5 which was released today. 

Christian