Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [qemu] xen_be_init under stubdom

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [qemu] xen_be_init under 
stubdom"):
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Well, fine, then it will fall over.  I don't see why we need to
> > special-case anything.
>  
> It depends on how it fails.
> And in any case, isn't it better to explicitly avoid running any code
> that we know for sure it cannot run? So that the next person that looks
> at this code doesn't assume that the backends are run in the stubdom too
> before realizing that they actually fail to start?

I agree but I think this should be done in much higher up the stack.

Ian.

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