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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] libxl: add basic support for devices without backend
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:17:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160915151749.GP15958@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473319226-27221-5-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:20:24AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> With the planned support of HVM USB passthrough via the USB emulation
> capabilities of qemu libxl has to support guest devices which have no
> back- and frontend. Information about those devices will live in the
> libxl part of Xenstore only.
> 
> Add some basic support to libxl to be able to cope with this scenario.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Code-wise, this patch looks good:

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>


>          /*
>           * We make a copy of everything for the backend in the libxl
> @@ -194,6 +205,9 @@ retry_transaction:
>           * instead.  But there are still places in libxl that try to
>           * reconstruct a config from xenstore.
>           *
> +         * For devices without backend (e.g. USB devices emulated via qemu)
> +         * only the libxl path is written.
> +         *

Without PV backend.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-08  7:20 [PATCH 0/6] libxl: add HVM USB passthrough capability Juergen Gross
2016-09-08  7:20 ` [PATCH 1/6] libxl: rename libcl_pvusb.c to libxl_usb.c Juergen Gross
2016-09-09 10:00   ` Wei Liu
2016-09-08  7:20 ` [PATCH 2/6] libxl: add libxl__qmp_run_command_flexarray() function Juergen Gross
2016-09-09 10:00   ` Wei Liu
2016-09-08  7:20 ` [PATCH 3/6] libxl: dont pass array size to libxl__xs_kvs_of_flexarray() Juergen Gross
2016-09-09 10:00   ` Wei Liu
2016-09-12  9:18     ` Wei Liu
2016-09-08  7:20 ` [PATCH 4/6] libxl: add basic support for devices without backend Juergen Gross
2016-09-15 15:17   ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-09-08  7:20 ` [PATCH 5/6] libxl: add HVM usb passthrough support Juergen Gross
2016-09-09 10:00   ` Wei Liu
2016-09-09 10:13     ` Juergen Gross
2016-09-15 14:22       ` Wei Liu
2016-09-12  8:51     ` George Dunlap
2016-09-15 15:38   ` Wei Liu
2016-09-16  8:51     ` Juergen Groß
2016-09-16 11:28       ` Wei Liu
2016-09-08  7:20 ` [PATCH 6/6] docs: add HVM USB passthrough documentation Juergen Gross
2016-09-15 15:38   ` Wei Liu

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