Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756054AbbLAKmt (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 05:42:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:35545 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752345AbbLAKmq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 05:42:46 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,368,1444694400"; d="scan'208";a="315609791" Message-ID: <565D79A2.4060901@citrix.com> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:42:42 +0000 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Goldstein , CC: , Boris Ostrovsky , David Vrabel Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] xen: wrap xenbus on xenfs with COMPAT option References: <1448919310-27981-1-git-send-email-cardoe@cardoe.com> In-Reply-To: <1448919310-27981-1-git-send-email-cardoe@cardoe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 19 On 30/11/15 21:35, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Since Xen 4.6.0, using xenbus via xenfs (/proc/xen/xenbus) is deprecated > and /dev/xen/xenbus via pvops is used instead. This is an effort to > eventually drop this interface after a reasonable amount of time. I would prefer the /proc/xen/xenbus and /proc/xen/evtchn files to be replaced with symlinks to the corresponding /dev/xen/ devices. Then I see no need to ever remove them, thus avoiding the need for yet another config option. I did briefly look at this and it seemed possible but didn't get as far as actually trying to change it. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/