From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Don't check if blktap is available
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:07:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508F98B8.1030209@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351582903.16868.9.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk>
On 30/10/12 08:41, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps even on Linux we would want a sanity check that the drivers are
>>> present and loaded etc?
>>
>> We could ensure that the tapdisk binaries are present, apart from that
>> I don't see anything else we could check.
>
> Could we check for /dev/xen/{evtchn,gntdev,...} or whatever else it
> needs?
We could also check with xc_gnttab_open, which will return an error on
NetBSD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 17:02 [PATCH 00 of 16 RFC] add libxl support for blktap3 and introduce the blktap3 build system Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 01 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Introduce the blktap3 device type Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:17 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-29 17:35 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 02 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Introduce blktap3 support for libxl Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 03 of 16 RFC] blktap3: support for blktap3 in libxl Makefile Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:19 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 10:49 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 04 of 16 RFC] blktap3: change libxl__blktap_devpath prototype to return an error code Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:21 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-29 17:41 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-30 7:40 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 05 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Don't check if blktap is available Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:23 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-29 17:43 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-30 7:41 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 9:07 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2012-10-30 9:30 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 06 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Remove physical device creation for libxl Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 07 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Introduce blktap3 top-level Makefile Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:25 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-26 20:04 ` Philipp Hahn
2012-10-29 11:05 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 08 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Introduce message types and structures Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:27 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-29 17:47 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 09 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Introduce the tapdisk control function prototypes Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:32 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 10:04 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-30 10:43 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 10 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Introduce the blktap header file Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:36 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-29 17:34 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 11 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Provide empty implementation for the tap_ctl_list and tap_ctl_list_free functions Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:37 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 10:29 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 12 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Provide empty implementation for tap_ctl_destroy Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 13 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Provide empty implementation for tap_ctl_create Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 14 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Provide Makefile for compiling the blktap3 control library Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:40 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 11:11 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-30 11:22 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 15 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Include the blktap3/control Makefile in the blktap3 compilation Thanos Makatos
2012-10-24 17:02 ` [PATCH 16 of 16 RFC] blktap3: Implement libxl__blktap_devpath and libxl__device_destroy_tapdisk Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:46 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 11:24 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-30 11:25 ` Ian Campbell
2012-10-30 11:29 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-10-26 11:14 ` [PATCH 00 of 16 RFC] add libxl support for blktap3 and introduce the blktap3 build system Ian Campbell
2012-10-29 16:33 ` Thanos Makatos
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