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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Handle for events?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:16:10 -0700
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 On 09/29/2010 09:34 AM, Srujan D. Kotikela wrote:
> Sorry,
>
> But from what I read I may not get notifications on /dev/xen/evtchn if
> my xen-evtchn module is not functioning. However if it is statically
> compiled it wont be found as a module. I can confirm it's working by
> checking if there are directories in my /proc/xen
>
> correct me if I am wrong.

/proc/xen is irrelevant to xen-evtchn; you would not expect to see any
changes in /proc/xen as a result of xen-evtchn being present or absent.

>
> I am calling notify() and I am getting a return value 0 but no
> notification mesages in /dev/xen/evtchn

You should look carefully at the existing examples of how to use that
device to see where you're going wrong.

    J