Re: [Xen-devel] Driver Architecture Changes

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/18/2005
03:10:55 AM:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:37:37PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:51:38PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > 
> > > Another question: I see that the .suspend function is not
used in the
> > > frontends anymore, but the structure still has that member.
Is the suspend
> > > member about to be removed?
> > 
> > The block and net drivers don't need this at the moment, but
it seems like
> > some driver may need it some time, so no, we won't be removing
it.It does no
> > harm to support it, and it may be useful to someone.
> 
> Is there any driver in the tree that needs it? if not, the Linux way
> would be to remove it until such a driver makes it into the tree and
> then add it. It's a very effective policy for keeping bloat at bay.

The TPM driver does need it. I was wondering about
the future of the method since the network and block device drivers had
used it before.

Cheers,
  Stefan
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