linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Hyper-V disk support V3

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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:29:27 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Mike Sterling <Mike.Sterling@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Hyper-V disk support V3

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:26:34PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:20:27 +0100
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add support for ignoring disks devices on specific host controllers to
> > libata.  Use this support to trigger us to ignore Hyper-V disk devices
> > on the emulated SATA device based on the system DMI information.
> > 
> > Jeff, I believe the first patch is what you had in mind in your comments.
> > Alan, the piix sadly has no subvendor/subdevice identifiers at all
> 
> So its 0x0000,0x0000 ?
> 
> > though we are able to detect the platform from the DMI information,
> > this any better?
> 
> What happens if you have a PIIX device which is being passed through from
> the underlying hardware or will hyper-v never support pass through ?

A good question indeed.  KY perhaps you can comment.

-apw
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