linux-kernel - RE: hv block drivers

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Date:	Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:31:10 +0000
From:	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	"'virtualization@...ts.osdl.org'" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"Xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <Xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>
Subject: RE: hv block drivers

>On Monday 30 August 2010 Arnd Bergmann wrote: 
>>On Monday 30 August 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Have you investigated making virtio a scsi device?
>
>I doubt that there is much value in changing it now, and it's not something I'd be interested in working on.
>For the HyperV drivers, it probably makes sense because half of it is trying to look 
>like SCSI anyway, while the other half is trying to look like ATA. For the ATA driver, 
>the obvious choice would be to make it a libata backend, though my impression 
>from a brief look at the driver was that it's better to copy some of the libata code 
>and integrate it into the hv SCSI driver.

Arnd,

Thanks for following up! I was cleaning up some other part of the drivers (not related to IDE/SCSI) 
And on my todo list is to clean up the IDE/SCSI drivers. I will go through the libata code and see
If there is anything in there that I can use to make these drivers somewhat saner.

I am not sure if I can combine them into one yet, Hyper-V treats both drivers differently. And there
Are some rumored changes to Hyper-V that would make these changes maybe even a bit more difficult.

I will use this mailing list to bounce ideas off of. 

I still need to clean up your other suggestion as well, the static declarations :)

For a more general question, When/if we make it out of staging, where should these drivers live?

	drivers/hyper-v or drivers/scsi and drivers/ide.

Is there a standard that is being followed?

Hank.

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