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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blktap: qcow2 image format support

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blktap: qcow2 image format support
From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:32:09 +0100
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Christoph Egger schrieb:
> On Thursday 21 February 2008 09:57:48 Keir Fraser wrote:
> IMO, _all_ blktap drivers need some code refactoring. There is a lot of
> duplicated code across all drivers
> that can be moved into a blktap/drivers/blk-common.c.

Yes, I think you're right on that. I noticed this especially with the
aio function which are duplicated in each single driver. I decided not
to fix this with the qcow2 patch as it is a different problem, but it
could be a good next step.

Kevin

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