[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 6/8] scsi: Split qdev "scsi-disk" into "scsi-hd" and "scsi-cd"

[Markus Armbruster]

Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 07.07.2010 03:37, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
>> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 02:37:47PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> Disk vs. CD needs to be in qdev, because it belongs to the drive's
>>> guest part.
>> 
>> Looks good, but the scsi-hd name feelds kinda awkward.  This is one
>> case we're I'm really wondering if the compatiblity is worth it or
>> if we should just keep using scsi-disk for the real disk.
>
> In any case the name should be consistent with ide-hd. And I'm not sure
> if it's really helpful to have ide-drive and ide-disk.

{ide,scsi}-{hd,cd} is the best consistent set of names I could find
within the backward compatibility straightjacket.

By the way, we could use a way to mark qdevs and properties deprecated.