Re: [PATCH] Fix name of Xen event-channel device

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 05/27/2010 10:13 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> The udev rules will just not longer match, as they only rename the
> device, this is no problem. However libxc _will_ break, as it lacks
> proper error check in its own device creation routine.
>   

Yeah, that's really annoying.  I can't change the kernel without also
having a flag day to update libxc.  I guess we could make sure all the
stable Xen branches get a libxc fix backported to them, but I wonder if
it would break other toolstacks?

> However there are not much possibilities here: this support will go away
> and it will annoy every user for some time.
>   

But if we don't make any kernel changes then libxc will muddle on even
if udev stops handling the device name properly?

    J