Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 15:50:50 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
       Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
       Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver.
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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> Either.  You seem to mention a lot of nested depths in sysfs or "files",
> yet your above tree doesn't show that.  And I don't understand what you
> mean by frontend/backend here either?  Is it a sysfs thing?  Or a Xen
> thing?

The files are xenstore, it's part of the communication between frontend
and backend.  The frontend is the device driver in the guest domain
which is just an I/O channel to the backend driver.  The backend is in
the driver domain where the physical hardware can be driven.

thanks,
-chris
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