[PATCH] UBUNTU: (upstream) xen-blkfront: Drop name and minor adjustments for emulated scsi devices
Stefan Bader
stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Aug 17 13:01:28 UTC 2011
These were intended to avoid the namespace clash when representing
emulated IDE and SCSI devices. However that seems to confuse users
more than expected (a disk defined as sda becomes xvde).
So for now go back to the scheme which does no adjustments. This
will break when mixing IDE and SCSI names in the configuration of
guests but should be by now expected.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784937
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 2112822..a41530f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(minor_lock);
#define BLKIF_MINOR_EXT(dev) ((dev)&(~EXTENDED))
#define EMULATED_HD_DISK_MINOR_OFFSET (0)
#define EMULATED_HD_DISK_NAME_OFFSET (EMULATED_HD_DISK_MINOR_OFFSET / 256)
-#define EMULATED_SD_DISK_MINOR_OFFSET (EMULATED_HD_DISK_MINOR_OFFSET + (4 * 16))
-#define EMULATED_SD_DISK_NAME_OFFSET (EMULATED_HD_DISK_NAME_OFFSET + 4)
+#define EMULATED_SD_DISK_MINOR_OFFSET (0)
+#define EMULATED_SD_DISK_NAME_OFFSET (EMULATED_SD_DISK_MINOR_OFFSET / 256)
#define DEV_NAME "xvd" /* name in /dev */
--
1.7.4.1
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