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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] libxl: Remove linux udev rules
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El 14/07/15 a les 18.48, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 17:40 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 05:35:23PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 07/14/2015 05:21 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 12:13 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 12:39:52PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 11:51:39AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>>> They are no longer needed, having been replaced by a daemon for
>>>>>>> driverdomains which will run scripts as necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> This introduces an regression. The 'daemon for driverdomains'
>>>>> is xenbackendd - which only gets built for NetBSD.
>>>>
>>>> It's not (any more), it's "xl devd", which should be built everywhere.
>>>
>>> Aha!  I knew I'd seen it somewhere.
>>>
>>> In that case, do we actually still need xenbackendd?  Or does
>>> xenbackendd do something slightly different?
>>>
>>
>> That's NetBSD-only thing as far as I remember. Not sure if what it does
>> is NetBSD specific.
> 
> My understanding was it had been subsumed by "xl devd", but I don't know
> why it hasn't been removed. Probably best to wait until Roger is back...

Some time ago I proposed to the NetBSD folks to remove xenbackendd,
because I think it's useless now, but the reply was to leave it as is:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2015/01/29/msg008483.html

Roger.