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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/14] libxl: disks: Make LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKN

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/14] libxl: disks: Make LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKNOWN work
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:48:58 +0100
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Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/14] libxl: disks: Make 
LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKNOWN work"):
> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 15:36 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > libxl callers should not be required to specify the backend if they
> > don't want to.  So LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKNOWN should instruct libxl to
> > choose the backend for itself.
> 
> I guess the selection of LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_TAP was chosen to give the
> greatest coverage as a stop gap measure until more smarts arrive? (It'll
> fall back to QDISK as necessary too, which is nice). 

Indeed.  This is wrong, at the moment.  Also the patch was missing the
block attach case.  So I will resend it.

Ian.

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