[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] have udev create the device for blktap

["Andrew Warfield" <andrew.warfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ships in the night, and so on -- as I posted concurrently with this, I
applied the patch. ;)

Anyhow, thanks for the clarifications, and I agree with your points
about evntchn moving to a dynamic minor and the tap interrogation
moving from /proc/devices to /sys -- that would all be great.

> > Also, on the blocktap side, it would be nice (in a later patch) to
> > kill the static allocation of the data-path devices and allocate them
> > on demand, as you do with the associed sysfs entries.
>
> That would not be a problem.  The tap devices could be stored in a link
> list. The only time you would need to search the list to find the tap
> device, is really on open.  You would also do it to look for a free
> device, but that search is already done.
>
> I'll take a look into that too.
Perfect -- this would be a very welcome patch.

Thanks again!
a.

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