Re: [PATCH] support identification of Xen virtual block devices

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

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On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 00:54 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 23:33, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 22:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 20:37, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > * Add xenvb_id utility to identify Xen disk and CD-ROM devices.
> >>
> >> What's the reason xen optical drives don't behave like real drives,
> >> and need a xen specific tool? That sounds rather odd,
> >
> > They aren't proper SCSI devices so you can't do SCSI inquiry like
> > cdrom_id wants, the properties you can query from a Xen vbd are very
> > basic, basically just TYPE=disk|cd.
> >
> > I suppose I could make the SCSI INQ stuff in cdrom_id optional, since
> > the CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY ioctl is implemented. Would that be preferred?
> 
> Please check the stuff I put in the git tree:
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=55d8f5e208396589476583dad8f2a7f2db3e2ef5

That works fine, thanks!

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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