From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Thomas Weber <swirl@gmx.li>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: virtio-pci: add softlinks between virtio and pci
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:54:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <virtio-pci-whynotsimplify@mdm.bga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110105191711.GA27489@redhat.com
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-07 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-05 19:17 [PATCH] virtio-pci: add softlinks between virtio and pci Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 19:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 19:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 20:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-05 20:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-05 21:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-06 8:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-07 8:54 ` Milton Miller [this message]
2011-01-07 8:55 ` [PATCH] virtio: remove virtio-pci root device Milton Miller
2011-01-07 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-09 15:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 11:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 11:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 11:42 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 12:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 13:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 13:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 14:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-10 17:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-01-10 17:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-17 0:33 ` Rusty Russell
2011-01-10 17:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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