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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: rename gntdev and evtdev modules to bel

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: rename gntdev and evtdev modules to beless generic
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:47:18 -0800
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On 12/07/09 16:29, James Harper wrote:
I'm thinking of dropping gntdev; it doesn't work at present (ends up
trying to take a mutex in a spinlock), and I don't think it has any
users.
 From memory I think that there is a glx passthrough project that makes
use of it

I don't think there's anything that can't be fixed; its just some locks got moved around. I'll mark it BROKEN for now.

    J

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