Re: adding /dev/xen/gnttab

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:55:33PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 06:14:26PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:16:12 +0200, "Christoph Egger"
> > <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> > > Thanks. Oh, do you mind if I add privcmd to /dev/xen/ as well?
> > > The kernel code to use /dev/xen/privcmd should be easy to adopt
> > > and will finally allow to remove kernfs.
> > 
> > While I welcome this move, I do not think it can be done easily, as there
> > are entries created dynamically under kernfs that cannot (yet?) be
> > manageable through /dev.
> 
> The obvious solution is to remove the xen nodes from kernfs, and
> add a xenfs and mount it at /dev/xen, no?

how is it better than using /kern ?

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