We do need hdev_create unconditionally on all platforms so that qemu-img
create support for host device works on all platforms.
Also relax the check to allow character devices in addition to block
devices. On many Unix platforms block devices have buffered block
nodes and unbuffered character device nodes, and on FreeBSD the block
nodes don't even exist anymore. Also on Linux we do support the
/dev/sgN scsi passthrough devices through the host device driver,
and probably the old-style /dev/raw/rawN raw devices although I haven't
tested that.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
raw_pread_aligned currently returns the raw return value from
lseek/read, which is always -1 in case of an error. But the
callers higher up the stack expect it to return the negated
errno just like raw_pwrite_aligned.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now we can make use of the newly introduced option structures. Instead of
having bdrv_create carry more and more parameters (which are format specific in
most cases), just pass a option structure as defined by the driver itself.
bdrv_create2() contains an emulation of the old interface to simplify the
transition.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
