Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver.

Chris Wright
2006-05-09T22:47:48Z

* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> Either. You seem to mention a lot of nested depths in sysfs or "files",
> yet your above tree doesn't show that. And I don't understand what you
> mean by frontend/backend here either? Is it a sysfs thing? Or a Xen
> thing?

The files are xenstore, it's part of the communication between frontend
and backend. The frontend is the device driver in the guest domain
which is just an I/O channel to the backend driver. The backend is in
the driver domain where the physical hardware can be driven.

thanks,
-chris