Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add missing modprobe to xencommons

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 25, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add missing modprobe to 
> xencommons"):
> > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 09:33 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > /lib/udev/devices is empty on my system and I can't see any
> > > documentation about what one should create there (actual dev nodes?) In
> > > any case it appears to be Debian specific.
> > 
> > Actually it turns out it is a core udevd feature and is documented in
> > udevd(8). So we could usefully create things here in our install target,
> > if we wanted.
> > 
> > That's assuming that opening /dev/xen/evtchn turns into a suitable
> > modprobe it should do, I think.
> 
> I think I will take the patch to modprobe in the init script.

This is what I have in a similar patch, it loads the relevant modules
for pvops and xenlinux kernel:

+modprobe xen-evtchn 2>/dev/null || :
+modprobe xen-gntdev 2>/dev/null || :
+modprobe evtchn 2>/dev/null || :
+modprobe gntdev 2>/dev/null || :


Olaf

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