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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Cleaning up /proc/xen

To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Cleaning up /proc/xen
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:39:16 -0700
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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* Anthony Liguori (aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Steven Hand wrote:
> >There's also 0 = leave it as is.
> >
> >What's the motivation for this clean-up again? 
> > 
> >
> I think the reasoning is that /proc is more or less a deprecated 
> interface.  Plus, the {evtchn,grant,xenbus} interfaces are empty files 
> that ioctls are done on--there's not really what proc files are meant to do.

Indeed.

> Perhaps someone a bit closer to the kernel community can comment more 
> definitively.

Yes, that along with basic code cleanups in drivers/xen need to be done
as part of upstreaming.

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