Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ide: Adds "model=s" option, allowing the user to override the default disk model name "QEMU HARDDISK"

[Floris Bos / Maxnet]

On 03/12/2012 05:08 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 12/03/2012 16:27, Floris Bos / Maxnet ha scritto:
> > > 1. IDE only, scsi-disk is missing.
> > Correct.
> > IDE support is easy.
> >
> > Adding SCSI support is more complicated, because "model" and "serial"
> > are not the only factors that can make up a  /dev/disk/by-id link
> > Could be a combination of 3 fields: vendor, model and serial.
> > But could also be based on another unique ascii or binary identifier
> > provided by the drive through Vital Product Data page 83h.
> I am going to add customization of VPD page 83h soonish (though only
> limited to another ASCII identifier), and Dmitry Fleytman told me
> offlist that he's going to add vendor/model support too.

Nice

> That said, I agree with the other comments from Markus.

Fair enough.
You guys outnumber me, so I will resubmit my IDE patch without the 
legacy -drive support.


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos