[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix virtio_blk serial pci config breakage

[Rusty Russell]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:25:20 pm Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 2) Passing an ATA identity page is goofy.  We should just pass the 
> serial number and let Linux generate the identity page.  Just because 
> Linux requires this as it's user space interface, that doesn't mean that 
> other guests will (like Windows).  Instead of exposing an opaque blob, 
> we should expose the information we need in a structured way.

I think John did this on my prompting, because it already existed as a
defined ABI.  If someone is going to make stuff up, isn't it better that
kvm does it (some of those fields might have useful values?) than linux?

(I don't care: my patches stick with the current scheme, but changing is
fairly easy, but needs to be decided before commit).

Thanks,
Rusty,