[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] Introduce API virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 15:05:39 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:03:09PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
> Since the name (like scsi_host10) is not stable for vHBA, (it can
> be changed either after recreating or system rebooting), current
> API virNodeDeviceLookupByName is not nice to use for management app
> in this case. (E.g. one wants to destroy the vHBA whose name has
> been changed after system rebooting, he has to find out current
> name first).
> 
> Later patches will support the persistent vHBA via storage pool,
> with which one can identify the vHBA stably by the wwnn && wwpn
> pair.
> 
> So this new API comes.
> ---
>  include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in |    5 ++++
>  src/driver.h                 |    6 +++++
>  src/libvirt.c                |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/libvirt_public.syms      |    5 ++++
>  4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

ACK

Daniel
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