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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen-blkfront: remove type check from blkfront_setup_discard
>>> On 13.01.14 at 14:45, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/14 13:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 13.01.14 at 14:00, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:34 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 13.01.14 at 13:01, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 13, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You can't do this in one go - the first two and the last one may be
>>>>>> set independently (and are independent in their meaning), and
>>>>>> hence need to be queried independently (xenbus_gather() fails
>>>>>> on the first absent value).
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, thats the purpose. Since the properties are required its an all or
>>>>> nothing thing. If they are truly optional then blkif.h should be updated
>>>>> to say that.
>>>>
>>>> They _are_ optional.
>>>
>>> But is it true that either they are all present or they are all absent?
>>
>> No, it's not. discard-secure is independent of the other two (but
>> those other two are tied together).
>
> Can we have a patch to blkif.h that clarifies this?
>
> e.g.,
>
> feature-discard
>
> ...
>
> discard-granularity and discard-offset must also be present if
> feature-discard is enabled

It would be "may" here too afaict. But I'll defer to Konrad, who
has done more work in this area...

Jan

> discard-secure may also be present if feature-discard is enabled.
>
> David





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