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block/curl: Drop TFTP "support"
authorMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2016 17:55:37 +0000 (18:55 +0100)
committerJeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 03:47:34 +0000 (22:47 -0500)
commit23dce3873f3aee6ee7d4a1c17dd26fb5f453bc5a
treee8ead49ce8ed8d5ddf008aafdf78232c8dc363c4
parent0a4c0c3f90c3fb0239cb17d63a68c14742965a1c
block/curl: Drop TFTP "support"

Because TFTP does not support byte ranges, it was never usable with our
curl block driver. Since apparently nobody has ever complained loudly
enough for someone to take care of the issue until now, it seems
reasonable to assume that nobody has ever actually used it.

Therefore, it should be safe to just drop it from curl's protocol list.

[Jeff Cody: Below is additional summary pulled, with some rewording,
            from followup emails between Max and Markus, to explain what
            worked and what didn't]

TFTP would sometimes work, to a limited extent, for images <= the curl
"readahead" size, so long as reads started at offset zero.  By default,
that readahead size is 256KB.

Reads starting at a non-zero offset would also have returned data from a
zero offset.  It can become more complicated still, with mixed reads at
zero offset and non-zero offsets, due to data buffering.

In short, TFTP could only have worked before in very specific scenarios
with unrealistic expectations and constraints.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20161102175539.4375-4-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
block/curl.c
docs/qmp-commands.txt
qapi/block-core.json
qemu-options.hx