Re: virtio-pci: add softlinks between virtio and pci

Milton Miller
2011-01-07T08:54:33Z

On: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 at about 19:17:11 -0000, Michael S. Tsirkin 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.
>

> Supply softlinks between these to make it possible.
>
> Gleb, could you please ack that this patch below
> will be enough to fix the installer issue that
> you see?
>

why not remove this device anchor and put the devices
under the pci device? Proposed patch follows as a
reply.

milton