Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932399AbWEIMBP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 08:01:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932401AbWEIMBP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 08:01:15 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58565 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932399AbWEIMBO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 08:01:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:01:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Wright Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver. Message-ID: <20060509120113.GB2213@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach References: <20060509084945.373541000@sous-sol.org> <20060509085201.799981000@sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060509085201.799981000@sous-sol.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 16 On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:00:35AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block > devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical > block device driver. Any reason you're using the old crappy xen I/O code instead of Rusty's alternative version? Also please stop this stupid front/back naming. In Linux terminology the frontend is the client if there's a need for a postfix at all, and the backend the server. Compare that to e.g. ibm vio. - 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/