Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document scsi/0x12/0x83 node

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Vrabel writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document 
scsi/0x12/0x83 node"):
> On 17/03/16 11:12, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > David Vrabel writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] blkif.h: document 
> > scsi/0x12/0x83 node"):
> >> On 16/03/16 13:59, Bob Liu wrote:
> >>> But we'd like to get the VPD information(of underlying storage device) 
> >>> also in Linux blkfront, even blkfront is not a SCSI device.
> >>
> >> Why does blkback/blkfront need to involved here?  This is just some
> >> xenstore keys that can be written by the toolstack and directly read by
> >> the relevant application in the guest.
> > 
> > I'm getting rather a different picture here than at first.  Previously
> > I thought you had some 3rd-party application, not under your control,
> > which expected to see this VPD data.
> 
> Bob != David?

Sorry, yes, the "you" I refer to above is Bob, not David.  I replied
to David's message because it seemd to give the best context.

Ian.

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