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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix vbd-interface document

To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix vbd-interface document
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:07:20 +0000
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On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 17:02 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Modern PV on HVM kernels map hd* devices to xvd*.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r 137ad3347504 docs/misc/vbd-interface.txt
> --- a/docs/misc/vbd-interface.txt     Mon Feb 14 17:02:55 2011 +0000
> +++ b/docs/misc/vbd-interface.txt     Wed Feb 16 16:57:46 2011 +0000
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ For Linux HVM guests using PV-on-HVM dri
>  For Linux HVM guests using PV-on-HVM drivers, users are recommended to
>  supply as few hd* devices as possible and use pure xvd* devices for
>  the rest.  Modern PV-on-HVM drivers will map the hd* devices to
> -/dev/xvdHDa etc.
> +/dev/xvd* etc.

xvdHDa was a proposal which never actually saw the light of day, right?

Otherwise both need mentioning...




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