Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751407AbWCWJeR (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:34:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751438AbWCWJeR (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:34:17 -0500 Received: from mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.0.14]:42467 "EHLO mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751407AbWCWJeQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:34:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1143101972.3147.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1143101972.3147.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Pratt , Chris Wright From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver. Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:34:34 +0000 To: Arjan van de Ven X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 26 On 23 Mar 2006, at 08:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> We certainly should be pushing everyone toward using the 'xdX' etc >> devices that are allocated to us. > > yes but you are faking something stupid ;) > You aren't ide, you don't take the IDE ioctls. So please just nuke this > bit.. Well, that's plausible. We probably don't need IDE *and* SCSI faking. We'd like to at least keep SCSI faking, perhaps making it more attractive by going to some effort to take at least the essential SCSI ioctls. We've talked about reving our block protocol to encapsulate SCSI anyway -- this would be another step on that path. If we stick to just our own major then we break distro init scripts and surprise users. -- Keir - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/