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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] /sys/hypervisor/uuid

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 10:43 +0100, Christian Limpach wrote:
> Also, the guest domain xenstore interface was never really intended to
> be used in anger, it was only added to support driver domains getting
> information about the devices to configure.  The immediate issue would
> be that access to xenstore is through a file in /proc/xen and I'd
> expect that to change at some point.  Might be good to already add the
> new path to all tools as a fallback option now.  Any suggestions for
> where this would end up in /sys I presume?

Actually, I'd suggest just taking it out and shooting it altogether.

What was the _intended_ use of having this exposed to the guest,
especially given that anything exposed shouldn't be considered a stable
ABI/API?

Jeremy


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