On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 23:33, Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 22:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 20:37, Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > * Add xenvb_id utility to identify Xen disk and CD-ROM devices. >> >> What's the reason xen optical drives don't behave like real drives, >> and need a xen specific tool? That sounds rather odd, > > They aren't proper SCSI devices so you can't do SCSI inquiry like > cdrom_id wants, the properties you can query from a Xen vbd are very > basic, basically just TYPE=disk|cd. > > I suppose I could make the SCSI INQ stuff in cdrom_id optional, since > the CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY ioctl is implemented. Would that be preferred? Please check the stuff I put in the git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=55d8f5e208396589476583dad8f2a7f2db3e2ef5 Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
