[Xen-devel] Re: Help please: bug#625 SCSI disk conflicts with blkfront---best approach for fix?

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The best fix is to stop hijacking major numbers that we don't own.

This has been discussed on LKML and we've been told not to do this.  The
longer we allow this the harder it will be for users when they eventually
have to switch over to xdX.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:21:17 +0100, Harry Butterworth wrote:

> I think bugzilla 625 is caused by compiling the scsi disk driver into
> the domU kernel.  xen_blk can't then get the SCSI major number 8.  This
> is a usability issue because people create broken domU kernels and then
> raise bugs.  What's the best fix?  Changing the Kconfig files to
> prohibit built in scsi disk when blkfront is enabled?  Is there a better
> option?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry.



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