From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: jgross@suse.com, annie.li@oracle.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
Paul.Durrant@citrix.com, roger.pau@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x83 node
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:18:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EA9286.5080109@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22250.37170.872699.326005@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 17/03/16 11:12, Ian Jackson wrote:
> David Vrabel writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x83 node"):
>> On 16/03/16 13:59, Bob Liu wrote:
>>> But we'd like to get the VPD information(of underlying storage device) also in Linux blkfront, even blkfront is not a SCSI device.
>>
>> Why does blkback/blkfront need to involved here? This is just some
>> xenstore keys that can be written by the toolstack and directly read by
>> the relevant application in the guest.
>
> I'm getting rather a different picture here than at first. Previously
> I thought you had some 3rd-party application, not under your control,
> which expected to see this VPD data.
Bob != David?
> But now I think that you're saying the application is under your own
> control. I don't understand why synthetic VPD data is the best way to
> give your application the information it needs.
>
> What is the application doing with this VPD data ? I mean,
> which specific application functions, and how do they depend on the
> VPD data ?
David
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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
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 [this message]
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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