From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: /dev/misc/evtchn , /dev/xen/evtchn and the event channel driver : a little question
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:41:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433BFD0A.10700@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac4506050929065367bb94f3@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Ryden wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I had booted Xen (domain 0).
>
>But I do not have /dev/misc/evtchn !
>(as ls /dev/misc/evtchn shows).
>On the other hand I *DO* have /dev/xen/evtchn and it seems to me that
>other modules in tools use /dev/xen/evtchn and not /dev/misc/evtchn.
>
>What is the truth behind this mystery ?
>
>
This is all left-over crude from devfs/udev and trying to support 2.4
and 2.6. I imagine that you're actually seeing a /dev/evtchn from udev
and Xend is manually creating /dev/xen/evtchn at startup.
There's a general cleanup needed here that's on my TODO list. Just been
overly distracted lately.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>TIA,
>MR
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-29 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-29 13:53 /dev/misc/evtchn , /dev/xen/evtchn and the event channel driver : a little question Mark Ryden
2005-09-29 14:41 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2005-09-29 14:52 ` Keir Fraser
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