Re: Re: USB virt status

[Nivedita Singhvi <nsnix@comcast.net>]

Harry Butterworth wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:50 +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:

>>Yes, right now I'm working with Xenstore too.  The updates I mentioned are 
>>supposed to tackle this problem by providing a better API, automating the 
>>channel setup state machine for the majority of users (i.e. all devices).  I 
>>believe a some of this code is fully completed and awaiting push to the main 
>>tree once it's been reviewed by a few people.

Hi Mark,

I didn't see the original email that Harry quoted, but could
you elaborate on that? Are you proposing a new API? Why only
a few people? Any reason not on the list?

Rusty had asked a question regarding what's in 3.0:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xen-devel&m=113038760216447&w=2

and I guess I'll second that..


>>I really would have liked to see a more abstract interface to communications, 
>>such as the one you propose.  However, it is not going to happen for the 3.0 
>>release and that's when the team promised the interfaces will be frozen.  If 
>>it can't be compatible with the existing interfaces, that's going to make it 
>>much less likely that anyone will update the existing drivers and then 
>>maintain two separate interdomain interfaces for each.
>>
>>I think the project is likely to follow the path of least resistance and go 
>>with a "xenstore connection setup library" that replaces most of the 
>>duplicate code but retain the old datapath API.  I get the impression this 
>>decision has been taken already.

Any reason for this to not be shared on xen-devel?

thanks,
Nivedita