Re: [Xen-devel] [DOCDAY PATCH] docs: initial documentation for xenstore paths

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [DOCDAY PATCH] docs: initial documentation for 
xenstore paths"):
> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 15:03 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > This is based upon my inspection of a system with a single PV domain running
> > and is therefore very incomplete.
> > 
> > There are several things I'm not sure of here, mostly marked with XXX in the
> > text.
> > 
> > In particular:
> > 
> >  - We seem to expose various things to the guest which really it has no 
> > need to
> >    know (at least not via xenstore). e.g. its own domid, its device model 
> > pid,
> >    the size of the video ram, store port and gref.

Maybe we need to have a "???" or "?deprecated" tag ?  That would avoid
us documenting things which we don't want people to use.

> >  - Missing reference for ~/device-model/*
> >  - Missing protocol reference for ~/control/shutdown

These can wait for now.

> >  - What is the distinction between /vm/UUID and /local/domain/DOMID

I think the former should be abolished (eventually).

> Ian J is this machine-readable in a way which is useful for whatever it
> is you wanted to machine read it into?

I think it will do.

Thanks,
Ian.

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