linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio: remove virtio-pci root device

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Message-Id: <201101171103.51778.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:51 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	Thomas Weber <swirl@....li>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: remove virtio-pci root device

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:49:04 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:10:46PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:55:06AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> > > We sometimes need to map between the virtio device and
> > > the given pci device. One such use is OS installer that
> > > gets the boot pci device from BIOS and needs to
> > > find the relevant block device. Since it can't,
> > > installation fails.
> > > 
> > > Instead of creating a top-level devices/virtio-pci
> > > directory, create each device under the corresponding
> > > pci device node.  Symlinks to all virtio-pci
> > > devices can be found under the pci driver link in
> > > bus/pci/drivers/virtio-pci/devices, and all virtio
> > > devices under drivers/bus/virtio/devices.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
> > Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
> 
> Rusty, any comments?
> We are going to tell the installer guys that this
> is the interface, would be nice to know that the
> patch is queued before we do.

Yep, I've applied it.  Sorry, took a week off to work on my linux.conf.au
talk...

Cheers,
Rusty.
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