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author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2012-07-10 11:12:50 +0200 |
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committer | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2012-07-17 16:48:31 +0200 |
commit | 2b584959ed300ddff4acba0d7554becad5f274fd (patch) | |
tree | ab5b71c96edf1e96951fddb0497c02e0cddc9dee /default-configs/sparc-softmmu.mak | |
parent | 856dcba23ad2aeea4d98d5d3c97cd46aac0cd073 (diff) |
block: Geometry and translation hints are now useless, purge them
There are two producers of these hints: drive_init() on behalf of
-drive, and hd_geometry_guess().
The only consumer of the hint is hd_geometry_guess().
The callers of hd_geometry_guess() call it only when drive_init()
didn't set the hints. Therefore, drive_init()'s hints are never used.
Thus, hd_geometry_guess() only ever sees hints it produced itself in a
prior call. Only the first call computes something, subsequent calls
just repeat the first call's results. However, hd_geometry_guess() is
never called more than once: the device models don't, and the block
device is destroyed on unplug. Thus, dropping the repeat feature
doesn't break anything now.
If a block device wasn't destroyed on unplug and could be reused with
a new device, then repeating old results would be wrong. Thus,
dropping the repeat feature prevents future breakage.
This renders the hints unused. Purge them from the block layer.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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