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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xc: deal with xen/evtchn and xen/gntdev device n

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xc: deal with xen/evtchn and xen/gntdev device names
From: Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:17:07 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:56:52AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Does any of this logic really belong in libxc in the first place? 

No.

> Can we not just rip it all out and make it the distro/platform's
> responsibility to ensure these devices exist and are correct?

Thats what I forced in Debian right now.

>                                                               Perhaps
> that might involve shipping some default/example udev rules instead.

With the fixed kernel this needs no rules. Even with devtmpfs (some
people call it devfs version 2) and no udev it will work then.

Bastian

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