Re: [PATCH 2/7] tools/misc: Drop xencons

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 16/03/2023 11:33 am, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 02:15:15PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> This is a python script which has it's shebang modified by be python3, but
>> was never converted to be python3 compatible.
> Not quite, that's the original shebang ;-)

What I meant was that INSTALL_PYTHON_PROG turns it into a python3 shebang.

I'll see if I can think of some slightly clearer wording.

>
>> The most recent reference I can find to this script (which isn't incidental
>> adjustments in the makefile) is from the Xen book, fileish 561e30b80402 which
>> says
>>
>>   %% <snip>  Alternatively, if the
>>   %% Xen machine is connected to a serial-port server then we supply a
>>   %% dumb TCP terminal client, {\tt xencons}.
>>
>> So this a not-invented-here version of telnet.  Delete it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>

Thanks.

~Andrew