Re: [PATCH] xenbackendd: remove xenbackendd

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%citrix.com@localhost>]

El 28/07/15 a les 13.12, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 16:13 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> The functionality provided by xenbackendd has been integrated into the xl
>> toolstack under the devd command on all platforms, because of that it no
>> longer makes sense to maintain xenbackendd.
>>
>> Init scripts have also been provided for all platforms in order to launch 
>> xl
>> devd in the background, mimicking the functionality provided by 
>> xenbackendd.
>> Furthermore, xenbackendd is not started by default on NetBSD since a 
>> couple
>> of releases ago (4.2 was the first release to disable the automatic 
>> startup
>> of xenbackendd in xencommons).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%citrix.com@localhost>
>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson%eu.citrix.com@localhost>
>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini%eu.citrix.com@localhost>
>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell%citrix.com@localhost>
>> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2%citrix.com@localhost>
>> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap%eu.citrix.com@localhost>
>> Cc: <port-xen%netbsd.org@localhost>
> 
> I thought I'd replied to this, but the archive and my Sent box both
> disagree. Anyway:
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell%citrix.com@localhost>
> 
> Probably not 4.6 material any more though?

Although the risk of this breaking other things is very low IMHO, I
don't see much benefit of pushing it to 4.6. It's not going to make the
release better or less buggy.

Roger.