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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/2] libxl: add support for vscsi
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:47:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22279.46690.90061.814779@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160408120651.GD10861@citrix.com>

Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH v11 1/2] libxl: add support for vscsi"):
> What Ian wanted was that we need clear correlation of xl configuration
> syntax with libxl API fields. For example, for a FOO device

Thanks for explaining, yes.

> However, I don't think that can be easily achieved in the case of pvscsi
> because we need to support both legacy Xen-classic kernel and new PVOPS
> kernel. Olaf, please correct me if I'm wrong.

That is unfortunate.  Also I am confused, then: if it is not possible
to support a sensible semantics (with an appropriate syntax) at the
libxl level, how is it possible to do so at the xl level ?

(I confess I haven't reread the patch in detail today...)

Thanks,
Ian.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-08 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-08  7:01 [PATCH v11 0/2] libxl: add support for pvscsi, iteration 11 Olaf Hering
2016-04-08  7:01 ` [PATCH v11 1/2] libxl: add support for vscsi Olaf Hering
2016-04-08  8:53   ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-08 10:18   ` Olaf Hering
2016-04-08 12:06   ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 13:47     ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-04-08 14:49       ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 14:16     ` Olaf Hering
2016-04-08 14:23       ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 15:43         ` Olaf Hering
2016-04-11 12:57           ` Olaf Hering
2016-04-11 13:02             ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 14:41       ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08  7:01 ` [PATCH v11 2/2] Scripts to create and delete xen-scsiback nodes in Linux target framework Olaf Hering
2016-04-08 11:05   ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 11:07     ` Olaf Hering

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