From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Rafal Wojtczuk <rafal@invisiblethingslab.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, qubes-devel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Using xen-netfront in dom0
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:15:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCC8FA9.80309@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100419082624.GC18572@emperor2.itldev.org>
On 04/19/2010 01:26 AM, Rafal Wojtczuk wrote:
> Is there any reason for this check, besides obviously false assumption
> "nobody needs it in dom0" ? On a related note, there seems to be no such
> check in xen-blkfront.c.
>
> If there are no disadvantages, I would vote for removal of the
> xen_initial_domain() check; otherwise, can we have a module parameter
> "allow_dom0" ?
>
No, I think its probably fine to remove the check. Presumably if the
driver is modular it would never get loaded in a normal dom0 case
anyway? And in the non-modular case, an initialized but unused driver
shouldn't take much memory (and if it does, that should be fixed).
J
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2010-04-19 8:26 Using xen-netfront in dom0 Rafal Wojtczuk
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