Re: [PATCH 13/13] qemu: allow bus != 0 for scsi-disk when -device is used

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On 05/08/2015 09:50 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
>
> On 05/05/2015 02:03 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
>> All the way back at the end of 2009, commit d78554d8 added a check
>> that prevented scsi disks from having a bus != 0 due to problems that
>> caused (noted in the comments). At that time, -device wasn't supported
>> by qemu, so the -drive parameter had to identify each disk by bus
>> type (the "if" option), bus#, and unit#.
>>
>> Since that time qemu has added the ability to provide such details
>> about a disk in a -device parameter, which will contain an id, and
>> that id can be referenced in -drive rather than giving
>> type/bus/unit. Since no bus= option is present in the -drive string in
>> this case, the problem with a non-0 bus is presumably no longer
>> present, so this patch makes the restriction active only when -device
>> isn't used.
>>
>> qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-lun-passthrough has been modified to set non-0
>> buses to assure that the restriction is no longer valid.
>> ---
>>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                                     | 13 +++++++++----
>>  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-lun-passthrough.args             | 12 ++++++------
>>  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-lun-passthrough.xml              |  4 ++--
>>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
> Seems reasonable to me... ACK


I think the comment in the code was unintentionally misleading (at least
to me). After testing this and looking into it further, I think I was
wrong, and that bus *should* always be limited to 0 (see the comments in
virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress()), so I'm dropping this patch.


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