Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756551Ab2BMLIb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:08:31 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:36730 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754517Ab2BMLI3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:08:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F38B657.7060405@de.ibm.com> References: <4F30F4EE.4080607@redhat.com> <4F311154.9080407@de.ibm.com> <4F3119A0.7080005@redhat.com> <4F312492.1040002@de.ibm.com> <4F313526.2050907@redhat.com> <4F3390FB.80107@redhat.com> <1329077777.21613.60.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <4F38B657.7060405@de.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:08:27 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: t9Z3HR3tEqILGhF8-ChkYHfmbuk Message-ID: Subject: Re: Pe: [PATCH v5 1/3] virtio-scsi: first version From: Bart Van Assche To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: James Bottomley , Paolo Bonzini , Christian Hoff , borntrae@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 24 On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 12/02/12 21:16, James Bottomley wrote: > > Could someone please explain to me why you can't simply fix virtio-blk? > > I dont think that virtio-scsi will replace virtio-blk everywhere. For non-scsi > block devices, image files or logical volumes virtio-blk seems to be the right > approach, I think. > > > Or would virtio-blk maintainers give a reason why they're unwilling to > > have it fixed? > > I dont consider virtio-blk broken. It just doesnt cover everything. Although I'm not sure whether that helps here: since about a year there is software present in the upstream kernel that allows to use any block device or even a file as a SCSI device. Bart. -- 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/