Commit 9839245 "ISCSI: Add SCSI passthrough via scsi-generic to
libiscsi" contains this hunk:
diff --git a/hw/scsi-generic.c b/hw/scsi-generic.c
index d856d23..8d51060 100644
--- a/hw/scsi-generic.c
+++ b/hw/scsi-generic.c
@@ -400,12 +400,6 @@ static int scsi_generic_initfn(SCSIDevice *s)
return -1;
}
- /* check we are really using a /dev/sg* file */
- if (!bdrv_is_sg(s->conf.bs)) {
- error_report("not /dev/sg*");
- return -1;
- }
-
if (bdrv_get_on_error(s->conf.bs, 0) != BLOCK_ERR_STOP_ENOSPC) {
error_report("Device doesn't support drive option werror");
return -1;
Why could we relax the "must be sg" requirement here? I know it's been
a while...
