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Re: [Xen-devel] Driver Architecture Changes

To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Driver Architecture Changes
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:54:46 -0500
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/18/2005 03:10:55 AM:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:37:37PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:51:38PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> >
> > > Another question: I see that the .suspend function is not used in the
> > > frontends anymore, but the structure still has that member. Is the suspend
> > > member about to be removed?
> >
> > The block and net drivers don't need this at the moment, but it seems like
> > some driver may need it some time, so no, we won't be removing it.It does no
> > harm to support it, and it may be useful to someone.
>
> Is there any driver in the tree that needs it? if not, the Linux way
> would be to remove it until such a driver makes it into the tree and
> then add it. It's a very effective policy for keeping bloat at bay.


The TPM driver does need it. I was wondering about the future of the method since the network and block device drivers had used it before.

Cheers,
  Stefan
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