Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: (Linux) extend SCSI device name to major mapping

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 21.09.10 at 17:31, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Firstly, according to the document I'm trying to get agreed (see my
> mail just sent, with another copy of it), sd* devices beyond disk 15
> are deprecated and not supported.  You should be using xvd* if you
> can.

Sure. I was just trying to test the SCSI path that someone else used
and reported a problem with. I wasn't able to use the first major (as
that is necessarily used by sd.ko), but I could free up all other majors
for blkfront.

> For backwards compatibility we do support specifying the plain
> xenstore number, in decimal, hex or octal.  So you can use that if you
> have old guests which for some reason you can't change.

Okay, that might also have worked then for this specific exercise.
It's only a little cumbersome to work out those numbers.

>> +#ifdef __linux__
> 
> Secondly, that is entirely wrong, because that switches on the
> operating system in dom0.  That may be entirely different to the
> operating system in the guest.  That shows why this whole idea of
> trying to specify the major/minor numbers in the guest is wrong.  Some
> guests may not even _have_ major/minor numbers.

I would agree, wouldn't there already be the use of Linux majors
for SCSI and IDE (for the latter, even including both majors).

Jan


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