Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: introduce libxl hotplug public API functions

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 15:32 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: 
> > > introduce libxl hotplug public API functions"):
> > > > - we can reuse the "state" based mechanism to establish a connection:
> > > > again not a great protocol, but very well known and understood.
> > > 
> > > I don't think we have, in general, a good understanding of these
> > > "state" based protocols ...
> > 
> > What?! We have netback, netfront, blkback, blkfront, pciback, pcifront,
> > kbdfront, fbfront, xenconsole, and these are only the ones in Linux!!
> 
> And no one I know is able to describe, accurately, exactly what the
> state diagram for even one of those actually looks like or indeed should
> look like. It became quite evident in these threads about hotplug script
> handling etc that no one really knows for sure what (is supposed to)
> happens when.

I thought that most of the thread was about the interface with the block
scripts, that is an entirely different matter and completely obscure.
If I am mistaken, please point me at the right email.


> Justin just posted a good description for blkif.h which included a state
> machine description. We need the same for pciif.h, netif.h etc etc.
 
The state machine is the same for block and network.

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