Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] hmp: Extend drive_del to delete nodes without BB

[Max Reitz]

On 25.02.2016 13:51, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 18:54:45 +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
>> On 23.02.2016 18:16, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Now that we can use drive_add to create new nodes without a BB, we also
>>> want to be able to delete such nodes again.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  blockdev.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> [..]
> 
>>>
>>
>> It's a bit strange to require the user to specify the node name using
>> "node-name" for drive_add, but the to use "id" in drive_del; especially
>> because x-blockdev-del uses "node-name", too.
> 
> Well, since 'x-blockdev-del' is considered unstable yet I can't really
> use it in libvirt, thus we discussed using drive_del as a workaround.
> 
> It makes partially sense since we'd add the new node with 'drive_add' in
> the first place.

Yes, you're right. However, my question was solely about the parameter
name (reusing "id" for a node name). As Kevin replied, for HMP the
parameter name doesn't really matter to the user anyway, so reusing the
"id" parameter here is completely fine.

Max

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