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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vscsiif.h: remove reference to WWN
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:34:39 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 02, Juergen Gross wrote:

> On 03/02/2015 11:15 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >The code in xend, xenlinux and pvops 3.18 expects the h:c:t:l notation.
> >Remove incorrect reference to WWN because it was never supported. And
> >its not clear how it could be supported. p-devname can be used to store
> >a config string.
> 
> The pvops backend driver should support the WWN notation. In case it
> isn't working this is a bug which should be repaired.
> 
> I implemented the WWn version before adding the possibility to use
> h:c:t:l due to compatibility with xend...

This requires changes to the libxl parser. I was not aware of that pvops
uses such notation.

Olaf