Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- [snip] > > > > > > > > For this part, there is ioctl() interface for all block device. > > > > Looking at virtio-blk in KVM world, it can accept almost all SCSI > commands > > > also in ioctl() even they already have virtio-scsi. > > > > But that's another story. > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Paul Durrant wrote: > > -Original Message- > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > For this part, there is ioctl() interface for all block device. > > > > > Looking at virtio-blk in KVM world, it can accept almost all SCSI > > commands > > > > also in ioctl() even they already hav

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Paul Durrant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Roger Pau Monné [mailto:roger@citrix.com] > > Sent: 23 March 2016 14:54 > > To: Bob Liu > > Cc: Roger Pau Monne; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Paul Durrant; Ian Jackson; > > konrad.w...@oracle.com; jgr...@suse.com; ann

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Roger Pau Monné [mailto:roger@citrix.com] > Sent: 23 March 2016 14:54 > To: Bob Liu > Cc: Roger Pau Monne; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Paul Durrant; Ian Jackson; > konrad.w...@oracle.com; jgr...@suse.com; annie...@oracle.com; David > Vrabel > Subject: Re: [PATC

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Bob Liu wrote: > On 03/23/2016 08:33 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Bob Liu wrote: > > > >> This patch documents a xenstore node which is used by XENVBD Windows PV > >> driver. > >> > >> The use case is that XenServer may have OEM specific storage backends

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Durrant writes ("RE: [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node"): > > From: Bob Liu [mailto:bob@oracle.com] > > Sent: 23 March 2016 11:48 > > To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org > > Cc: Paul Durrant; Ian Jackson; konrad.w...@oracle.com; jgr...@suse.com; > > Roger Pau Monne; annie...@oracle.com;

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Bob Liu
On 03/23/2016 08:33 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Bob Liu wrote: > >> This patch documents a xenstore node which is used by XENVBD Windows PV >> driver. >> >> The use case is that XenServer may have OEM specific storage backends and >> there is requirement to run OEM software

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Bob Liu wrote: > This patch documents a xenstore node which is used by XENVBD Windows PV > driver. > > The use case is that XenServer may have OEM specific storage backends and > there is requirement to run OEM software in guest which relied on VPD > information supplied by t

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Bob Liu [mailto:bob@oracle.com] > Sent: 23 March 2016 11:48 > To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org > Cc: Paul Durrant; Ian Jackson; konrad.w...@oracle.com; jgr...@suse.com; > Roger Pau Monne; annie...@oracle.com; David Vrabel; Bob Liu > Subject: [PATCH] blkif.h: docu

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x node

2016-03-23 Thread Bob Liu
This patch documents a xenstore node which is used by XENVBD Windows PV driver. The use case is that XenServer may have OEM specific storage backends and there is requirement to run OEM software in guest which relied on VPD information supplied by the storages. Adding a node to xenstore is the eas