Re: [PATCH] xc: deal with xen/evtchn and xen/gntdev device names

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 06/01/2010 12:56 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Does any of this logic really belong in libxc in the first place? 
>   

No.  It's a relic of a simpler time.

> Can we not just rip it all out and make it the distro/platform's
> responsibility to ensure these devices exist and are correct? Perhaps
> that might involve shipping some default/example udev rules instead.
>   

I only kept it because I didn't want to break any existing installs, but
updating the kernel's name is going to do that anyway.  Unfortunately
the current libxc code is broken in the worst possible way - it will
unlink an existing correct device and then fail to replace it - so even
if the system has set it up correctly it will still screw things up.

I think we're just going to have to have a flag day and fix kernel,
libxc and udev (assuming it needs it) all at once...

    J