Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:40:09 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org] > Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:45 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; > ohering@suse.com; jbottomley@parallels.com; jasowang@redhat.com; > apw@canonical.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; stable@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] drivers: scsi: storvsc: Set srb_flags in all cases > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:46:51PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > Correctly set SRB flags for all valid I/O directions. Some IHV drivers > > on the Windows host require this. > > What are IHV drivers?
If the target is a SAN device, the host simply passes the request over to the native driver stack on the host. Some specific hardware (IHV - independent hadware vendor) drivers on Windows require that SRB flags be correctly set in all cases.
Regards,
K. Y > > > Otherwise looks fine, > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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