From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA. Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:38:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20090901183837.GA22551@infradead.org> References: <1251415060.16297.58.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090901161651.GO22870@parisc-linux.org> <200909010933.50571.dtor@vmware.com> <1251823925.3864.216.camel@mulgrave.site> <1251826804.12482.47.camel@mulgrave.site> <1251827676.16169.152.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:51325 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbZIASip (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:38:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1251827676.16169.152.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alok Kataria Cc: James Bottomley , Roland Dreier , Dmitry Torokhov , Matthew Wilcox , Bart Van Assche , Robert Love , Randy Dunlap , Mike Christie , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , Andrew Morton , Rolf Eike Beer , Maxime Austruy On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:54:36PM +0000, Alok Kataria wrote: > Also note that, the way all these things are implemented for each of the > hypervisor devices will differ and getting every hv-vendor to agree on a > common set of things is not very attractive proposition ( atleast, this > I can say from my past experiences). virtio is shared by three or four hypervisors depending on how you count it, with others under development.