On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:00:41AM -0400, john cooper wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:06:57PM -0400, john cooper wrote: >>> [Resend of earlier patch: 1/2 rebased to qemu-kvm, >>> 2/2 minor tweak] >> >> patch 1/2 seems to be missing. > It is in the kvm and qemu-devel list archives: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/maillist.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-05/msg00661.html Ah, it got posted as reply to the previous submission, not with this one. >> So why can't we re-use the existing interfaces instead of inventing a >> new one? > I'm unclear to what specifically you're referring -- the > ioctl() used to retrieve the serial number in the guest? Well, there's not specific ioctl to get a serial number for scsi, but given that we now have SG_IO passthrough in virtio-blk it should be easy enough to provide inquiry data and the device identification VPD page by that way. Not sure how it's handled for ide, maybe that way is even easier. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
