block: Geometry and translation hints are now useless, purge them

There are two producers of these hints: drive_init() on behalf of
-drive, and hd_geometry_guess().

The only consumer of the hint is hd_geometry_guess().

The callers of hd_geometry_guess() call it only when drive_init()
didn't set the hints.  Therefore, drive_init()'s hints are never used.

Thus, hd_geometry_guess() only ever sees hints it produced itself in a
prior call.  Only the first call computes something, subsequent calls
just repeat the first call's results.  However, hd_geometry_guess() is
never called more than once: the device models don't, and the block
device is destroyed on unplug.  Thus, dropping the repeat feature
doesn't break anything now.

If a block device wasn't destroyed on unplug and could be reused with
a new device, then repeating old results would be wrong.  Thus,
dropping the repeat feature prevents future breakage.

This renders the hints unused.  Purge them from the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
index 161985b1e5..06c997e864 100644
--- a/blockdev.c
+++ b/blockdev.c
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
  * later.  See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
-#include "block.h"
 #include "blockdev.h"
+#include "hw/block-common.h"
 #include "monitor.h"
 #include "qerror.h"
 #include "qemu-option.h"
@@ -551,17 +551,7 @@ DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, int default_to_scsi)
     case IF_SCSI:
     case IF_XEN:
     case IF_NONE:
-        switch(media) {
-	case MEDIA_DISK:
-            if (cyls != 0) {
-                bdrv_set_geometry_hint(dinfo->bdrv, cyls, heads, secs);
-                bdrv_set_translation_hint(dinfo->bdrv, translation);
-            }
-	    break;
-	case MEDIA_CDROM:
-            dinfo->media_cd = 1;
-	    break;
-	}
+        dinfo->media_cd = media == MEDIA_CDROM;
         break;
     case IF_SD:
     case IF_FLOPPY: