Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 10/14] qemu-io: Remove "growable" option

[Eric Blake]

On 01/27/2015 10:04 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 2015-01-27 at 11:59, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 01/26/2015 08:00 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>>> Remove "growable" option from the "open" command and from the qemu-io
>>> command line. qemu-io is about to be converted to BlockBackend which
>>> will make sure that no request exceeds the image size, so the only way
>>> to keep "growable" would be to use BlockBackend if it is not given and
>>> to directly access the BDS if it is.
>>>
>>> qemu-io is a debugging tool, therefore removing a rarely used option
>>> will have only a very small impact, if any. There was only one
>>> qemu-iotest which used the option; since it is not critical, this patch
>>> just removes it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>>
>> Do we want to ever reuse the test number that you are deleting?
> 
> Good question, I think I have talked about that with Kevin before. It
> would not hurt too much if we were to accidentally reuse the test case
> number, most certainly not here in upstream.
> 
> However, for all downstream versions of qemu, this might make adding the
> new test 16 difficult; but certainly not impossible (if someone is
> affected by this issue, he/she can just use 999 or something). So we may
> want to keep in mind not to reuse number 16, but if someone does, so be it.

Is it worth a placeholder file that has a comment mentioning that the
test number is intentionally reserved (and if someone attempts to run,
always passes)?

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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