From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Msntd-0002k4-FK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:22:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsntZ-0002gH-QP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:22:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsntZ-0002fw-GO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:22:17 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:50976) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsntZ-0002hm-4a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:22:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:22:05 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix virtio_blk serial pci config breakage Message-ID: <20090930012205.GA11886@shareable.org> References: <4AB7A01A.3000206@redhat.com> <200909300258.17297.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <4AC24460.1040305@codemonkey.ws> <200909301042.22358.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909301042.22358.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Rusty Russell Cc: john cooper , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , john cooper , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity , jens.axboe@oracle.com, Vadim Rozenfeld Rusty Russell wrote: > Calling the ATA IDENTIFY command a Linux ABI quirk is disingenuous. > > Not sure what the SCSI equiv is to get a serial number (VPD?) But if > everyone is happy with 20 bytes, and John wants to do SN that way, > I'll take the patch. One thing I'd hope to see at some point is a "read-only" flag, set for read-only images. I don't know if ATA IDENTIFY has that yet, but I'm sure the SCSI equivalent does. -- Jamie