On 24/01/2017 13:56, Markus Armbruster wrote: > So, what do we want to deprecate? > > I think the onboard SCSI HBA adopting if=scsi drives should stay, > because it matches what we do for other interface types. Unless we > wanted to deprecate interface types other than none entirely.
Yes, of course. > What about realview and versatile auto-creating lsi53c895a? That should go. > What about pseries auto-creating spapr-vscsi? That should stay I think. The discriminant being that spapr-vscsi devices actually are likely to have drivers in the guests. > What about cold-plug of HBAs auto-creating SCSI devices? You proposed > deprecating it for PC types, but it's currently independent of the > machine type. Deprecate it for all types? If not, add a flag to > MachineClass so we can deprecate it just for PC types? I need --verbose for this, sorry. Paolo