Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] virtio-scsi: Add start/stop functionality for vhost-scsi

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 09/09/2012 00:40, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:00:50PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 07/09/2012 08:48, Nicholas A. Bellinger ha scritto:
>>> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
>>> ---
>>>  hw/virtio-pci.c  |    2 ++
>>>  hw/virtio-scsi.c |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  hw/virtio-scsi.h |    1 +
>>>  3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> Please create a completely separate device vhost-scsi-pci instead (or
>> virtio-scsi-tcm-pci, or something like that).  It is used completely
>> differently from virtio-scsi-pci, it does not make sense to conflate the
>> two.
> 
> Ideally the name would say how it is different, not what backend it
> uses. Any good suggestions?

I chose the backend name because, ideally, there would be no other
difference.  QEMU _could_ implement all the goodies in vhost-scsi (such
as reservations or ALUA), it just doesn't do that yet.

Paolo