On 12/07/09 22:54, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
SCSI controllers have no trouble existing without any attached
disks. This could be achieved with the (legacy) monitor syntax
pci_add pci_addr=auto storage if=scsi
This is now denied with
scsi requires a backing file/device.
failed to add if=scsi
There is no need for this denial and it breaks compatability
with existing QEMU usage, so remove the check for presence
of a drive.
Gerd, care to comment? This bit of code seems pretty intentional:
Looks fine to me. If older qemu versions allow creating disk-less scsi
adapters this way we should keep that behavior for compatibility reasons.
commit 5b684b5a56e81f6f88234952fe8ed68010c36e19
Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Oct 13 13:59:55 2009 +0200
hotplug: fix "pci_add storage if=scsi"
There is no conflict with this bugfix.
cheers,
Gerd
