Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/6] libxl: Remove linux udev rules

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 17:40 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 05:35:23PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On 07/14/2015 05:21 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 12:13 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 12:39:52PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 11:51:39AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > >>>> They are no longer needed, having been replaced by a daemon for
> > >>>> driverdomains which will run scripts as necessary.
> > >>
> > >> This introduces an regression. The 'daemon for driverdomains'
> > >> is xenbackendd - which only gets built for NetBSD.
> > > 
> > > It's not (any more), it's "xl devd", which should be built everywhere.
> > 
> > Aha!  I knew I'd seen it somewhere.
> > 
> > In that case, do we actually still need xenbackendd?  Or does
> > xenbackendd do something slightly different?
> > 
> 
> That's NetBSD-only thing as far as I remember. Not sure if what it does
> is NetBSD specific.

My understanding was it had been subsumed by "xl devd", but I don't know
why it hasn't been removed. Probably best to wait until Roger is back...

Ian.


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