From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNSLW-00008F-1X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:14:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNSLV-0004lk-0T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:14:38 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:42352 helo=newverein.lst.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QNSLU-0004lg-Pn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:14:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:14:36 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Message-ID: <20110520161436.GA5149@lst.de> References: <1305903817-25476-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1305903817-25476-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] SCSI series part 2, rewrite LUN parsing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:03:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > This is the second part of my SCSI work. The first is still pending > and this one is incomplete, but I still would like to get opinions > early enough because this design directly affects the UI. > > This series is half of the work that is necessary to support multiple > LUNs behind a target. The idea is to have two devices, "scsi-path" > and "scsi-target", each of which provides both a SCSIDevice and a > SCSIBus. I don't quite understand what you mean with path here. It doesn't seem to map to any SAM concept, nor does it seem to be related to traditional multipathing. Can you explain what a path is supposed to be, and why it's called a "path"?