From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Thomas Weber <swirl@gmx.li>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: remove virtio-pci root device
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:51 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101171103.51778.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110110171904.GA30058@redhat.com>
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:49:04 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:10:46PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:55:06AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> > > We sometimes need to map between the virtio device and
> > > the given pci device. One such use is OS installer that
> > > gets the boot pci device from BIOS and needs to
> > > find the relevant block device. Since it can't,
> > > installation fails.
> > >
> > > Instead of creating a top-level devices/virtio-pci
> > > directory, create each device under the corresponding
> > > pci device node. Symlinks to all virtio-pci
> > > devices can be found under the pci driver link in
> > > bus/pci/drivers/virtio-pci/devices, and all virtio
> > > devices under drivers/bus/virtio/devices.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
> > Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
>
> Rusty, any comments?
> We are going to tell the installer guys that this
> is the interface, would be nice to know that the
> patch is queued before we do.
Yep, I've applied it. Sorry, took a week off to work on my linux.conf.au
talk...
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-05 19:17 [PATCH] virtio-pci: add softlinks between virtio and pci Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 19:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 19:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 19:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 20:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 20:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 19:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 20:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 20:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 21:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 21:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-06 8:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-06 8:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-07 8:54 ` Milton Miller
2011-01-07 8:55 ` [PATCH] virtio: remove virtio-pci root device Milton Miller
2011-01-07 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-07 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-09 15:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 11:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 11:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 11:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:42 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:42 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 12:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 13:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 13:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 13:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 14:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 14:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 13:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 12:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-09 15:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 17:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 17:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-17 0:33 ` Rusty Russell
2011-01-17 0:33 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2011-01-10 17:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 17:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 17:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 17:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-07 8:55 ` Milton Miller
2011-01-07 8:54 ` virtio-pci: add softlinks between virtio and pci Milton Miller
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