Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/11] tools changes

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/12/2014 11:01 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 10:41 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On 03/06/2014 11:13 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > Resend of changes from the 4.4 freeze time.
> > >
> > > Olaf Hering (11):
> > >     docs: remove ia64 from kexec_and_kdump.txt
> > >     unmodified_drivers: remove ia64 parts of the code
> > >     docs: remove ia64 from tmem-internals.html
> > >     stubdom: remove ia64 from stubdom
> > >     libxc: remove ia64 from xg_private.h
> > >     pygrub: remote ia64 from pygrub
> > >     xend: remove ia64 from xend sources
> > >     libxl: add option for discard support to xl disk configuration
> > >     tools/xc: pass errno to callers of xc_domain_save
> > >     xend/pvscsi: recognize also SCSI CDROM devices
> > >     tools/xend: move assert to exception block
> > This reminds me: do we still need xencomm? My understanding is that it
> > was only used by ia64 (and ppc?) and Linux recently removed support for
> > it. I don't know whether other OSs use it.
> My understanding was that it was a ppc thing, not sure about ia64.
>
> Neither x86 nor arm uses it AFAIK. I'm not entirely sure what its
> purpose actually was.
Then it sounds like we should be able to remove it.

I can send a patch unless one of the maintainers wants to do it (i.e. 
remove relevant files and update Makefiles).
-boris


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