Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753331AbZJMQqK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:46:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752923AbZJMQqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:46:09 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:35463 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbZJMQqI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:46:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD4AEAA.2080209@goop.org> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:45:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-2.7.b4.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: akataria@vmware.com, Randy Dunlap , Mike Christie , Bart Van Assche , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , Matthew Wilcox , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" , Roland Dreier , Greg KH , LKML , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Chris Wright , "Chetan.Loke@Emulex.Com" , Daniel Walker , Rolf Eike Beer , Robert Love , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5. References: <1254336812.19921.23.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20091002004725.GP3958@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <1254789028.15233.54.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <1255444557.2855.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1255444557.2855.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.97a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 21 On 10/13/09 07:35, James Bottomley wrote: >> Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called >> vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks. >> > I'm still curious to know what the 'p' in the name stands for. Surely > this is a fully virtual driver, not a paravirtual one? > I would assume that "pv" does stand for paravirtual. The terminology is a bit screwy: "fully virtualized" means that the device looks like a real hardware device that is being emulated. "Paravirtualized" means that it is a completely virtual device which isn't an emulation of anything; the guests know this this and talk to it accordingly. J -- 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/