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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2] Add user PM control interface

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jinsong Liu <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2] Add user PM control interface
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:06:12 +0000
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On 10/12/2008 10:04, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Adding some domctl/sysctl usage in the Linux kernel would actually be fine
> by me, except that I do think it should be conditional on a Kconfig option
> that makes the above additional constraint very clear to the user.

Oh, another thing would be that, since this at least initially would be used
only for passthrough of info to userspace, the kernel could gracefully
disable this feature if not executed on a compatible Xen version.

 -- Keir



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