From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddHlO-0000Yu-JN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:10:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddHlL-0007D9-G8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:10:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddHlL-0007CB-7X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:10:11 -0400 References: <1501766821-76419-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <8ad6ed91-b793-fab1-ea72-1e30e5b59266@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:10:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1501766821-76419-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] scsi: enclosure support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 03/08/2017 15:26, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi all, > > due to a customer issue I've added simple subenclosure support > to the SCSI emulation. The patch simply converts the current invisible > LUN0 into an enclosure device; existing setups using LUN0 as disks or > CD-ROMs will not be affected. What is the issue exactly? That is, for what is it necessary to have a dummy enclosure? I agree with Dan that this need machine type compatibility gunk. For example, could the new device affect /dev/sgN numbering? Paolo