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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual	devic
 
* Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Either.  You seem to mention a lot of nested depths in sysfs or "files",
> yet your above tree doesn't show that.  And I don't understand what you
> mean by frontend/backend here either?  Is it a sysfs thing?  Or a Xen
> thing?
The files are xenstore, it's part of the communication between frontend
and backend.  The frontend is the device driver in the guest domain
which is just an I/O channel to the backend driver.  The backend is in
the driver domain where the physical hardware can be driven.
thanks,
-chris
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