Re: [PATCH 00/11] tools changes

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 03/12/2014 11:01 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 10:41 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 03/06/2014 11:13 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>> Resend of changes from the 4.4 freeze time.
>>>
>>> Olaf Hering (11):
>>>     docs: remove ia64 from kexec_and_kdump.txt
>>>     unmodified_drivers: remove ia64 parts of the code
>>>     docs: remove ia64 from tmem-internals.html
>>>     stubdom: remove ia64 from stubdom
>>>     libxc: remove ia64 from xg_private.h
>>>     pygrub: remote ia64 from pygrub
>>>     xend: remove ia64 from xend sources
>>>     libxl: add option for discard support to xl disk configuration
>>>     tools/xc: pass errno to callers of xc_domain_save
>>>     xend/pvscsi: recognize also SCSI CDROM devices
>>>     tools/xend: move assert to exception block
>>
>> This reminds me: do we still need xencomm? My understanding is that it
>> was only used by ia64 (and ppc?) and Linux recently removed support for
>> it. I don't know whether other OSs use it.
> My understanding was that it was a ppc thing, not sure about ia64.
>
> Neither x86 nor arm uses it AFAIK. I'm not entirely sure what its
> purpose actually was.

Then it sounds like we should be able to remove it.

I can send a patch unless one of the maintainers wants to do it (i.e. 
remove relevant files and update Makefiles).

-boris