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

To: "Jeremy Katz" <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] /sys/hypervisor/uuid
From: "Christian Limpach" <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:01:22 +0100
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On 5/19/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Well, no.

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?

Let me copy/paste from my previous message you replied to and quoted:
it was only added to support driver domains getting information about
the devices to configure.

    christian

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