On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Wolfgang Bumiller wrote:
> * Till/Until changed
> * Added (since 2.4) to json file
> * Added the 11-byte limit description. Without mentioning the trailing
>   spaces in the json file since the guest OS doesn't expose them to
>   the user. However, I mentioned it in the commit message.
> 
> The limit comes from the FAT structure, but for completeness' sake I
> looked up the FAT descriptions a little more.  Turns out at least
> FAT32 labels are "supposed" to be stored with uppercase letters, and
> seem to have some theoretical restrictions on the used characters, but
> neither linux nor windows guests seem to care on the OS side. And at
> least mkfs.vfat's -n option only warns about lowercase letters, but
> doesn't error. Theoretically you're also not allowed to start a label
> with a space, while mkfs.vfat neither warns nor errors about this.
> So I decided to not add any additional checks and only mentioned it in
> the json's doc string.
> 
> Wolfgang Bumiller (1):
>   vvfat: add a label option
> 
>  block/vvfat.c        | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  qapi/block-core.json |  6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
> 
> 

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

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