Re: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loadersupport [1/2])

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Er, no.  The blkback allocates it's own id, which is passed around between
> them.

But how would you tell the blkback what file it was meant to be accessing 
before it allocates that ID.

> The blkback them maps the id into a handle structure, which then has a void
> *data(or a union, if you want) that maintains a pointer to a filename, or
> reference to a block device, then a function dispatch table that knows how
> to handle the requests.

Yup.

Cheers,
Mark

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