From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/17] libxl: allow usage of char devices as block backends
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 17:44:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53909062.7030800@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401982897.15729.145.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk>
On 05/06/14 17:41, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 17:08 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> On FreeBSD ZVOLs/disks/partitions are char devices, so libxl must
>> allow it's usage.
>
> Are they really, how... interesting...
>
> Do we think this should be made platform specific?
This is already platform specific, see libxl__try_phy_backend in
libxl_{linux/netbsd}.c, the problem is that we had this generic gate in
libxl_device.c that only allows block or regular files to be tested for
'phy' support. If it's more suitable, I think we can get rid of this
gate in libxl_device and rely on the OS specific version of
libxl__try_phy_backend to do the checking.
Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-05 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 15:08 [PATCH v2 00/17] tools: add support for FreeBSD Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] configure: make the libaio test conditional on blktap1 Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:06 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-05 15:49 ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-06-06 9:35 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] configure: disable qemu-trad on FreeBSD systems by default Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:07 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] configure: disable ROMBIOS if qemu-trad is disabled Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:09 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] include: import FreeBSD headers for evtchn and privcmd devices Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] libxc: add support for FreeBSD Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:11 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] libxc: remove broken endianess gate on lz4 decompressor Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:14 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] xenstored: unify xenstored OS-specific bits Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:19 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] xenstored: add FreeBSD xenstored device paths Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:20 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-06 9:15 ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-06-06 9:36 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] console: add FreeBSD includes Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:20 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] init: add FreeBSD xencommons init script Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:24 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] hotplug: add FreeBSD vif-bridge Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:26 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-05 15:32 ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-06-05 15:34 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-05 15:36 ` Roger Pau Monné
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] libxl: add FreeBSD OS support Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:33 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] libxl: add support for FreeBSD uuid implementation Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:39 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] libxl: only include utmp.h if it's present Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] libxl: allow usage of char devices as block backends Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:41 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-05 15:44 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2014-06-05 15:45 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] hvmloader: remove size_t typedef and include stddef.h Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-02 15:08 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] build: export linker emulation parameter to SeaBIOS Roger Pau Monne
2014-06-05 15:42 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-18 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 00/17] tools: add support for FreeBSD Ian Campbell
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