Please drop these two patches. It looks like I sent out the wrong set of patches. I will send the ones I wanted to send shortly. Regards, K. Y > -----Original Message----- > From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 4:00 PM > To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx; > jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: KY Srinivasan > Subject: [PATCH RESEND 0000/0002] drivers: scsi: storvsc > > > The current Windows hosts only handle a subset of scsi commands > sent from the guest and for commands that are not supported, they are > filtered on the host side a generic failure is returned to the guest > as SRB status. The returned error code does not permit the guest to > figure out if there was an error or if the command was not supported. > > Based on the input I got from the community, I have convinced the windows > developers to return an error code that allows the guest to distinguish between > unsupported command and true failures. However, it is not clear when this fix > will > be shipped. > > This patch set addresses this issue by filtering the ATA_16 command on the guest > (note that currently the host is filtering this command as it is not supported). > I also have a patch here the correctly handles SRB_STATUS_INVALID_REQUEST > error returns - note that the current windows hosts don't return this today. > > This is a resend of the patches sent earlier based on suggestions from > Jeff Garzik <jgpobox@xxxxxxxxx> and Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>. > > > Regards, > > K. Y _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
