Re: [PATCH v3 13/28] hw/xen: automatically assign device index to block devices

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 10:01 +0100, Durrant, Paul wrote:
> 
> This code is allocating a name automatically so I think the onus is on 
> it not create a needless clash which is likely to have unpredictable 
> results depending on what the guest is. Just avoid any aliasing in the 
> first place and things will be fine.


Yeah, fair enough. In which case I'll probably switch to using
xs_directory() and then processing those results to find a free slot,
instead of going out to XenStore for every existence check.

This isn't exactly fast path and I'm prepared to tolerate a little bit
of O(n²), but only within reason :)

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