Re: adding /dev/xen/gnttab

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

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 06:19:08PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:05:59AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >
> > > 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 ?
> 
> Perhaps it's easier to provide the nodes xentools want, where it wants
> them, without remounting all of /kern there or making a gigantic
> symlink forest...

We have some control on xentools; I see no problems intructing him to use
files from /kern (righ now, no remount or extra symlink is needed to have it
working). Maintainig another filesystem seems really overkill to me.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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