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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] virtio-scsi: Add start/stop functionality for
	vhost-scsi
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:24:37 +0300
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:16:54AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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

Then why do you say "It is used completely differently from
virtio-scsi-pci"?  Isn't it just a different backend?

If yes then it should be a backend option, like it is
for virtio-net.

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MST