From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752687Ab1GaSTL (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:19:11 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:40057 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752510Ab1GaSTG (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:19:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:19:05 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rusty Russell Cc: Alexey Zaytsev , Christoph Hellwig , Christian Borntraeger , Avishay Traeger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: add block topology support Message-ID: <20110731181905.GA14288@lst.de> References: <20100129190158.GA25122@lst.de> <201001301529.49848.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20100130201910.GA19811@lst.de> <201002011140.05761.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <8762mw2hpe.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <871ux84bfp.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871ux84bfp.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:42PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I guess you could just remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX from the spec. > > Linux did not implement it, and virtualbox does not have virtio block > > support at all. Are there any other known users, who might have > > implemented the VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECTOR_MAX feature? > > Did qemu implement it? If not, we'll simply kill it, and pretend it > never happened... It was never added to either qemu or the kernel. It would really help if we had a copy of the spec in a readable format (that is plain text) in major implementations of virtio like qemu and the kernel.