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Message-Id: <52D3F535020000780011311B@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:16:21 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	"Olaf Hering" <olaf@...fle.de>, <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen-blkfront: remove type check
 from blkfront_setup_discard

>>> On 13.01.14 at 14:00, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:34 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 13.01.14 at 13:01, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 13, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> > 
>> >> You can't do this in one go - the first two and the last one may be
>> >> set independently (and are independent in their meaning), and
>> >> hence need to be queried independently (xenbus_gather() fails
>> >> on the first absent value).
>> > 
>> > Yes, thats the purpose. Since the properties are required its an all or
>> > nothing thing. If they are truly optional then blkif.h should be updated
>> > to say that.
>> 
>> They _are_ optional.
> 
> But is it true that either they are all present or they are all absent?

No, it's not. discard-secure is independent of the other two (but
those other two are tied together).

Jan

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