On 13/07/2015 15:20, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> This would imply that any transitional device cannot offer scsi,
> doesn't it?
> 
> We have two layers interacting here: virtio-blk which may or may not
> offer scsi support, and the transport layer which may or may not offer
> VERSION_1 support. Failing scsi commands if VERSION_1 has been
> negotiated makes sense to me; but I don't want to disable scsi config a
> priori because the driver might negotiate VERSION_1. This would imply
> that virtio-blk over virtio-ccw would never offer scsi once we enable
> virtio-1 support, and it kind of defeats the purpose of a transitional
> device for me.
> 
> (The other way round - fail negotiating revison 1 if the device was
> configured with scsi support - makes more sense to me.)

For newer machine types, it would make sense to block VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI
altogether if !blk->conf.scsi.  Would that fix the problem for you too?

Paolo

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