From: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: "jgross@suse.com" <jgross@suse.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
"annie.li@oracle.com" <annie.li@oracle.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>,
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x83 node
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:04:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EA3AD4.4060103@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60c0fa3b898c4ba5915dbf12d0413644@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net>
On 03/16/2016 10:07 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Liu [mailto:bob.liu@oracle.com]
..snip..
>>>
>>
>> But we'd like to get the VPD information(of underlying storage device) also in
>> Linux blkfront, even blkfront is not a SCSI device.
>>
>> That's because our underlying storage device has some vendor-specific
>> features which can be recognized through informations in VPD pages.
>> And Our applications in guest want to aware of these vendor-specific
>> features.
>
> I think the missing piece of the puzzle is how the applications get this information.
> In Windows, since everything is a SCSI LUN (or has to emulate one) applications just send down 'scsi pass-through' IOCTLs and get the raw INQUIRY data back.
> In Linux there would need to be some alternative scheme that presumably blkfront would have to support.
>
They plan to send a REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC request down to blkfront, and hoping blkfront can handle this request and return the VPD informations.
I'll confirm weather they can read the xenstore node directly.
--
Regards,
-Bob
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-16 3:09 Bob Liu
2016-03-16 7:16 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-16 12:36 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-16 13:59 ` Bob Liu
2016-03-16 14:07 ` Paul Durrant
2016-03-17 5:04 ` Bob Liu [this message]
2016-03-16 14:32 ` David Vrabel
2016-03-17 5:07 ` Bob Liu
2016-03-17 11:12 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 11:18 ` David Vrabel
2016-03-17 11:20 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 12:55 ` Bob Liu
2016-03-22 13:41 ` David Vrabel
2016-03-22 14:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-22 14:38 ` David Vrabel
2016-03-22 14:43 ` Paul Durrant
2016-03-22 15:09 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 15:25 ` Paul Durrant
2016-03-22 16:14 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 16:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-22 17:39 ` Paul Durrant
2016-03-22 15:12 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 15:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-22 16:11 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 16:38 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-22 16:25 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-16 14:33 ` Ian Jackson
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