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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Thomas Weber <swirl@gmx.li>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] virtio: export model and type in /sys
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:45:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D464C6F.7010601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201101311435.24531.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

(Adding Neil into Cc.)

于 2011年01月31日 12:05, Rusty Russell 写道:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:23:00 pm Amerigo Wang wrote:
>> Our kdump script needs /sys/block/X/device/{vendor, model, type},
>> but virtio devices don't have {model, type}, this patch adds them.
>> Actually, I don't know how to fill the model field, other block devices
>> seem read it from SCSI. Any comments?
>
> This seems deeply wrong.  Can't you fix your script?

Well, we use (vendor, model, type) to identify a disk, and so far we only
see virtio devices don't have this. So, we hope virtio at least provides
some dummy files for us.

>
> Model might sanely map to the feature bits, but making the type the same
> as the PCI type is weird...
>

Yeah, that is why I mark the patch as RFC, I don't know which is the correct way
to fill these two values. Providing some dummy values is also fine for us.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-31  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31  2:53 [RFC Patch] virtio: export model and type in /sys Amerigo Wang
2011-01-31  4:05 ` Rusty Russell
2011-01-31  5:45   ` Cong Wang [this message]
2011-01-31 14:02     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-01 17:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-31  9:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 17:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-01 17:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-01 17:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-04  6:29   ` Cong Wang
2011-02-12  7:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-12  9:56       ` Cong Wang

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