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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] block/raw-posix: avoid bogus fixup for cyli


From: Christian Borntraeger
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] block/raw-posix: avoid bogus fixup for cylinders on DASD disks
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 10:23:28 +0100
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On 12/14/2015 06:49 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:41:19 +0100
> Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> large volume DASD that have > 64k cylinders do claim to have
>> 0xFFFE cylinders as special value in the old 16 bit field. We
>> want to pass this "token" along to the guest, instead of
>> calculating the real number. Otherwise qemu might fail with
>> "cyls must be between 1 and 65535"
>>
>> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  block/raw-posix.c | 7 -------
>>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Maybe add cc:stable?

Yes.

Kevin, ping. I assume this goes via your tree?




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