Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix rename: xenstore not fully updated

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:25:31AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 09:52 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > +    /* update backend 
> > > /local/domain/0/backend/<device>/<domid>/.../domain */
> > > +    be_dev = libxl__xs_directory(gc, trans, "/local/domain/0/backend", 
> > > &ndevs);
> > 
> > The hard-coded 0 cannot work if you have driver domain.
> > 
> > At the very least it should be using LIBXL_TOOLSTACK_DOMID.
> 
> Does anyone know the purpose of this node, i.e. what consumes it?
> docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown doesn't mention it, neither do any of
> xen/include/public/io/*.h AFAICS.
> 
> The backend needing to know the name (as opposed to domid) of the
> frontend domain seems rather unusual to me.
> 

I think it's for consistency but Chunyan might have different opinions.

Wei.

> Perhaps we should just nuke this key?
> 
> Ian.

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