Comment 14 for bug 1594239

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dgilbert-h) wrote :

> As noted above, virtio-scsi-pci uses a bus address as part of the internal ID string while
> virtio-scsi-device does not.
>
> * Is this difference intentional?
>
> * Are they intended to support different use cases? If so, what?

I don't think it is intentional; I think every SCSI device is expecting to have
a globally unique name; it's got a unique name on it's adapter (in terms of bus/id/lun triple - i.e. 0:0:0) and expecting it's adapter to have a unique name, which in the case of the PCI devices is the PCI bus name.

Dave