From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Help please: bug#625 SCSI disk conflicts with blkfront---best approach for fix? Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:59:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1150802478.7727.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org The best fix is to stop hijacking major numbers that we don't own. This has been discussed on LKML and we've been told not to do this. The longer we allow this the harder it will be for users when they eventually have to switch over to xdX. Regards, Anthony Liguori On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:21:17 +0100, Harry Butterworth wrote: > I think bugzilla 625 is caused by compiling the scsi disk driver into > the domU kernel. xen_blk can't then get the SCSI major number 8. This > is a usability issue because people create broken domU kernels and then > raise bugs. What's the best fix? Changing the Kconfig files to > prohibit built in scsi disk when blkfront is enabled? Is there a better > option? > > Thanks, > Harry.