Re: [Xen-devel] Driver Architecture Changes

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Cheers,
Muli
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