[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API
On 06/18/2015 08:20 AM, Chun Yan Liu wrote: On 6/17/2015 at 07:34 PM, in message <1434540857.13744.334.camel@xxxxxxxxxx>,Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 16:20 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:My point was to avoid the sysfs accesses in libxl in order to support BSD as well and to reduce the complexity.As a slight aside to this, can't libxl use libusb for a lot of this stuff and therefore avoid being Linux specific? http://libusb.info/ claims to support "Linux, OS X, Windows, Windows CE, Android, OpenBSD/NetBSD, Haiku.". Interestingly FreeBSD is missing there but I don't think that need to be a blocker. I don't see a problem with adding libusb to our set of dependencies, and it's certainly got to be better than (re)implementing a bunch of sysfs stuff (which I presume is what libusb does under the hood anyway).Using libusb is certainly good and can save effort to implement things by ourself. Only one concern: some functions require newer version of libusb. For example, functions to get port (quite like busid) information libusb_get_port_numbers or libusb_get_port_path need libusb version >= 1.0.12. If libusb version is not satisfied, the whole pvusb work might be blocked. Is this really a problem? lubusb version 1.0.12 is out for three years now. Would we really need to support pvUSB on dom0 not being capable to install a more recent libusb? Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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