Re: [GIT] xenbus backend support for upstream

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:43:55PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The following git pull request adds the Xenbus infrastructure for Xen
> backend drivers to the upstream 2.6.37-rc kernel. It essentially
> refactors the frontend xenbus scaffolding into frontend and common and
> then adds the backend part.
> 
> All but one patch is cherry-picked from xen.git xen/dom0/backend/core.
> It wasn't possible to simply merge the branch because that pulled in a
> bunch of 2.6.32-style dom0 support which conflicts with what is now
> upstream.
> 
> The only cherry-picked patch which required changes was the "xen:
> separate out frontend xenbus" commit which needed updating because the
> code which it moves has changed since it was written (primarily the
> changes to wait_for_devices e.g. c6e1971139be, f8dc33088feb,
> ae7888012969).
> 
> The last patch is new and fixes up the checkpatch issues in the
> aggregate of the previous commits. I did it this way rather than fixing
> individual patches since I wanted to retain the history as is.
> 
> I have a WIP set of changes which port netback onto this infrastructure
> (the port works but still uses PageForeign and hence is not
> upstreamable). I also tested with a merge of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
> devel/xen-pciback-0.1 and the result seemed functional.

Ok. It compiled for me fine and looks fine. I stuck it on my branch at
linux-next