Re: [PATCH-v2] virtio-scsi: Add vdrv-scan for post VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK LUN scanning

2012-07-16 Thread James Bottomley
...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Zhi Yong Wu wu...@cn.ibm.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig h...@lst.de Cc: Hannes Reinecke h...@suse.de Cc: James Bottomley jbottom...@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org Was the change so great that it needs re acking? I assume it also now

Re: [PATCH 0/4] block: move sd_format_disk_name() into block core as disk_name_format()

2012-04-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:50 +0800, Ren Mingxin wrote: This patch series renames sd_format_disk_name() to disk_name_format() and moves it into block core. So that who needs formatting disk name can use it, instead of duplicating these similar help functions. Ren Mingxin (4): block: add

Re: [PATCH 4/4] virtio_blk: use disk_name_format() to support mass of disks naming

2012-04-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 11:52 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: Probably same. Renaming existing devices will break setups. I think the idea is to avoid using the legacy naming in new drivers *that will be added from now on*. Yeap. So if we're agreed no other devices going forwards should ever use

Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V5.

2009-10-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 17:30 -0700, Alok Kataria wrote: Were you still planning on renaming the driver to something less generic (like vmw_pvscsi)? Yep, below is a patch with the rename, the driver is now called vmw_pvscsi. Do let me know if you have any other comments. Thanks. I'm still

Re: paravirt_ops queue rebased

2007-05-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 16:27 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: James Bottomley wrote: Just make sure it's the one I sent you, not your original one ... the original one won't compile on voyager. Sorry, I saw your patch, but while I was trying to work out how you changed it I forgot

Re: paravirt_ops queue rebased

2007-05-06 Thread James Bottomley
parts of smp into their own file Several parts of kernel/smp.c and smpboot.c are generally useful for other subarchitectures and paravirt_ops implementations, so make them available for reuse. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eric W

Re: The virtuailization patches break Voyager.

2007-04-28 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 10:42 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 09:52:30 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Eric W. Biederman wrote: Next time I'm in a really tormenting mood I will fire up my my ibm ps2 with it's 16Mhz 386 and 6MB and verify that all is working well there.

Re: The virtuailization patches break Voyager.

2007-04-28 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 11:34 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: The sane pattern is and seems to has always been. arch_function() { platform_ops.platform_function(); } Yes agreed. We'll slowly move there. Patches to accelerate it are welcome (for post .22) But you're flaming