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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: "Ian Campbell" <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: pyxc_linux_build() in tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c still needed?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:56:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5613A8F3.9050300@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444121781.5302.52.camel@citrix.com>

On 10/06/2015 10:56 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 08:33 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Do we have any requirements to be compatible to old releases regarding
>> the functions in tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c ?
>
> IMHO, no.
>
> There are also too many compatibility shims in front of the domain builder,
> i.e. all the stuff in tools/libxc/xc_dom_compat_linux.c which IMHO could be
> nuked too.

Hmm, all of the functions there are defined in xenguest.h and are
probably used by out-of-tree components.

xc_linux_build() is used in qemu-xen in file /hw/xenpv/xen_domainbuild.c

Is it really okay to remove all of this stuff?


Juergen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06  6:33 pyxc_linux_build() in tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c still needed? Juergen Gross
2015-10-06  8:56 ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06  9:02   ` Juergen Gross
2015-10-06  9:11   ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-10-06  9:32     ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-06  9:34       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-10-06 10:01         ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-06 10:56   ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2015-10-06 11:08     ` Ian Campbell

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