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| author | aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> | 2009-03-12 19:57:08 +0000 |
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| committer | aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> | 2009-03-12 19:57:08 +0000 |
| commit | 7d78066926b68afe28a1948c64618ee085d9ab02 (patch) | |
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Add specialized block driver scsi generic API (Avi Kivity)
When a scsi device is backed by a scsi generic device instead of an
ordinary host block device, the block API is abused in a couple of annoying
ways:
- nb_sectors is negative, and specifies a byte count instead of a sector count
- offset is ignored, since scsi-generic is essentially a packet protocol
This overloading makes hacking the block layer difficult. Remove it by
introducing a new explicit API for scsi-generic devices. The new API
is still backed by the old implementation, but at least the users are
insulated.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6822 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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