Re: [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>]

John Levon writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration"):
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:49:34AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > Of course the one downside is that this slightly changes the guest-visible
> > interface since it can't scribble at will in /l/d/<domid> any more. I hope
> > noone was relying on that! If we need to open up some more specific subdirs
> > for write access, I will consider that.
> 
> We're writing to the following paths that aren't standard:
> 
> device-misc/vif/default-link
> hvmpv/{xpv,xdf,xpvd,xnf}/version

What are these and how are they used ?

>  (we could even document this stuff by expanding xenstore.txt ?)

xenstore.txt currently has only the xenstored<->domains protocol, and
doesn't specify the structure or meaning of the xenstore tree.

interface.tex is supposed to do the latter but it's hopelessly out of
date and of course no-one really wants to edit TeX when they update
anything.

If some kind soul were to make a stab at extracting the relevant
(true!) parts of interface.tex into a new .txt file that would be very
nice :-).

Ian.