Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2011-05-01 15:39:30
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2011-05-01 15:39:30
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:32:35PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
On the host-side, as part of configuring a guest you can specify block devices as being under an IDE controller or under a SCSI controller. Those are the only options you have. Devices configured under the IDE controller cannot be seen in the guest under the emulated SCSI front-end which is the scsi driver (storvsc_drv). So, when you do a bus scan in the emulated scsi front-end, the devices enumerated will not include block devices configured under the IDE controller. So, it is not clear to me how I can do what you are proposing given the restrictions imposed by the host.
Just because a device is not reported by REPORT_LUNS doesn't mean you can't talk to it using a SCSI LLDD. We have SCSI transports with all kinds of strange ways to discover devices. Using scsi_add_device you can add LUNs found by your own discovery methods, and use all the existing scsi command handling.