Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Cleaning up /proc/xen

[Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>]

* Anthony Liguori (aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Steven Hand wrote:
> >There's also 0 = leave it as is.
> >
> >What's the motivation for this clean-up again? 
> > 
> >
> I think the reasoning is that /proc is more or less a deprecated 
> interface.  Plus, the {evtchn,grant,xenbus} interfaces are empty files 
> that ioctls are done on--there's not really what proc files are meant to do.

Indeed.

> Perhaps someone a bit closer to the kernel community can comment more 
> definitively.

Yes, that along with basic code cleanups in drivers/xen need to be done
as part of upstreaming.

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel