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Rusty Russell cb38fa23c1 virtio: de-structify virtio_block status byte
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.

Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02 21:50:45 +10:00
Rusty Russell 24a5ae5d03 virtio: remove unused id field from struct virtio_blk_outhdr
This field has been unused since an older version of virtio.  Remove
it now before we freeze the ABI.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
2008-02-04 23:50:01 +11:00
Rusty Russell a586d4f601 virtio: simplify config mechanism.
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:57 +11:00
Rusty Russell e467cde238 Block driver using virtio.
The block driver uses scatter-gather lists with sg[0] being the
request information (struct virtio_blk_outhdr) with the type, sector
and inbuf id.  The next N sg entries are the bio itself, then the last
sg is the status byte.  Whether the N entries are in or out depends on
whether it's a read or a write.

We accept the normal (SCSI) ioctls: they get handed through to the other
side which can then handle it or reply that it's unsupported.  It's
not clear that this actually works in general, since I don't know
if blk_pc_request() requests have an accurate rq_data_dir().

Although we try to reply -ENOTTY on unsupported commands, ioctl(fd,
CDROMEJECT) returns success to userspace.  This needs a separate
patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-23 15:49:54 +10:00