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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] SCSI passthrough cleanup
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To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Two questions:

- Why do you use AIO ? If the Linux sg device supports selects, then
using the QEMU select() callback suffices.

- Why do you use a block device ?

Regards,

Fabrice.

Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This series of patches makes some cleanups in SCSI passthrough and
> add functionnalities.
> 
> [PATCH 1/5] reverse scsi-generic
> 
> Reverse previous implementation and restore block-raw-posix.c.
> 
> [PATCH 2/5] Move AIO
> 
> This patche moves raw AIO part from block-raw-posix.c to qemu-aio-raw.c.
> 
> [PATCH 3/5] Add block SG interface
> 
> This patch re-implement scsi-generic.c using a new block interface.
> 
> [PATCH 4/5] DVD movie support
> 
> This patch allows to read a protected/encrypted movie from a DVD.
> 
> [PATCH 5/5] SCSI device DMA split
> 
> This patch allows to split a READ or WRITE into several READ or WRITE.
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 
> 
> 
>