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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gdbsx: prefer privcmd character device
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:13:02 +0000
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On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 18:53 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Doug Goldstein writes ("[PATCH 3/4] gdbsx: prefer privcmd character
> device"):
> > Prefer using the character device over the proc file if the character
> > device exists.
> 
> I think this common logic (which also appears in your 1/4 patch)
> should be factored out.
> 

For reasons I don't really understand gdbsc appears to avoid the use of
libxenctrl completely and has it's own h/call wrapper and such.

(Perhaps a legacy of it being out of tree?)