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RE: [Xen-devel][PATCH] ioemu: ignore the arg of tapdisk

To: Dutch Meyer <dmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel][PATCH] ioemu: ignore the arg of tapdisk
From: "Zhang, Yang" <yang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:18:00 +0800
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Dutch Meyer wrote:
> Yeah, that does seem to be the conclusion, but it's very wrong.
> 
> Let me try again to clear this up.  The args in tapdisk problem has
> NOTHING to do with blktap2. It was a change made for ioemu in 19346.
> 
> Since the first prefix "tap" means tapdisk, the second prefix is an
> oddly structured hack to use some of the tapdisk infrastructure
> towards a new end.  Is anyone actually using this?  If not, maybe we
> should cut it to avoid the confusion-inducing clutter.

ok. So I think you should update the README. :)

> --Dutch
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
>> Zhang, Yang writes ("RE: [Xen-devel][PATCH] ioemu: ignore the arg of
>> tapdisk"): 
>>> hi Ian, If the patch is fine to you, can you help me to check in
>>> it. Or else when use "tap:tapdisk:qcow2" which introduced by blktap2
>>> at config file will raise error in qemu.
>> 
>> I thought the conclusion of the discussion was that the requirement
>> to 
>> specify `tap:tapdisk' was a bug in the blktap2 configuration
>> arrangements ?
>> 
>> Ian.
>> 
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