[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Allow usage of unpriv_sgio for SCSI generic hostdev

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Fri Aug 24 13:02:06 UTC 2018


On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 01:32:41PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:50:00AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> > In what is perhaps a couple lifetimes ago at this point, patches
> > were posted and "mostly" all eventually accepted upstream to support
> > unpriv_sgio on SCSI generic hostdev devices. Since the needed parts
> > of the functionality from the kernel perspective were not yet present
> > upstream, a couple of the patches were not accepted. See:
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-July/msg00204.html
> > 
> > and in particular patches 9 and 10. Since that time it seems things
> > have changed
> 
> Nice!
> 
> Do you have the kernel commit IDs?

I've not found any sign of the "unpriv_sgio" sysfs file existing
in today's upstream LKML tree, so I'm not sure this is correct.

Regards,
Daniel
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