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authorKevin Wolf2016-06-23 14:20:24 +0200
committerKevin Wolf2016-09-05 19:06:47 +0200
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parentblock: Accept node-name for blockdev-backup (diff)
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block: Accept node-name for blockdev-mirror
In order to remove the necessity to use BlockBackend names in the external API, we want to allow node-names everywhere. This converts blockdev-mirror to accept a node-name without lifting the restriction that we're operating at a root node. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--qapi/block-core.json3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index 53f46b625c..bcb37db5af 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -1277,7 +1277,8 @@
# @job-id: #optional identifier for the newly-created block job. If
# omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)
#
-# @device: the name of the device whose writes should be mirrored.
+# @device: The device name or node-name of a root node whose writes should be
+# mirrored.
#
# @target: the id or node-name of the block device to mirror to. This mustn't be
# attached to guest.