From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: andrew.warfield@cl.cam.ac.uk, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make evtchn use a dynamic minor
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:08:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <451D0CC1.4050207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C142854D.1D43%Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 29/9/06 2:40 am, "Steven Rostedt" <srostedt@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch makes evtchn use a dynamic minor number instead. It also
>> updates the code in tools to create the device node if udev fails. The
>> tools now read the sysfs system to find the minor number needed.
>
> Are there really systems out there that mount sysfs yet don't use udev?
I use to :-) (and sometimes still do!)
>
> It'd be nice to avoid the skanky search-and-create code in userspace. But
> we'll take it if it really is likely to be useful.
>
Yeah, I didn't care much for it either, but my intent was to make it as
robust as possible. Either way is fine with me.
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-29 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-29 1:40 [PATCH] make evtchn use a dynamic minor Steven Rostedt
2006-09-29 1:55 ` John Levon
2006-09-29 7:09 ` Keir Fraser
2006-09-29 12:08 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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