Re: [PATCH v4 09/11] 9p: darwin: Implement compatibility for mknodat

[Greg Kurz]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:30:18 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:

> On 7/2/22 09:47, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 20:10:23 -0500
> > Will Cohen <wwcohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> This patch set currently places it in 9p-util only because 9p is the only
> >> place where this issue seems to have come up so far and we were wary of
> >> editing files too far afield, but I have no attachment to its specific
> >> location!
> >>
> > 
> > Inline comments are preferred on qemu-devel. Please don't top post !
> > This complicates the review a lot.
> > 
> > This is indeed a good candidate for osdep. This being said, unless there's
> > some other user in the QEMU code base, it is acceptable to leave it under
> > 9pfs.
> 
> virtiofsd could eventually use it.


Indeed but virtiofsd is for linux hosts only AFAICT and I'm not aware of any
work to support any other host OS.

Cc'ing virtio-fs people for inputs on this topic.