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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Bique Alexandre <alexandre.bique@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ATAPI pass through
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:44:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701084459.GA3079@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B4B4929-9F33-4F87-A1D3-16D56661E84B@suse.de>

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:57:37AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> But last time I checked, we had a cdrom emulation in scsi-disk.c _and_  
> in ide.c.
> 
> I personally see no reason for that. Why can't we just have an atapi  
> emulation layer in ide.c and use whatever scsi backends we have? That  
> way, we'd only need to implement cd-rom and scsi passthrough once and  
> have it available either via SCSI or via ATAPI.

That would be best.  Note that we don't implement SCSI passthrough in
scsi-disk.c but rather in scsi-generic.c.  But being able to attach
both of them to ata.c using an ATAPI shim would indeed be best.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 15:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ATAPI pass through Bique Alexandre
2009-06-30 16:26 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-30 18:10   ` Bique Alexandre
2009-07-01  6:57   ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-01  8:44     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-07-01  9:36     ` Paul Brook
2009-07-01 11:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-30 17:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-30 17:55   ` Bique Alexandre
2009-07-01  8:43     ` Christoph Hellwig

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