Re: [Xen-devel] design questions: blktap & dom0-kernel/Xen binary compatibility

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 17:45 +0000, Andreas Kinzler wrote:
> for example why blktap was not migrated to vanilla kernel 3.x? 

The short answer is that it wasn't felt like it would be acceptable
upstream for various architectural reasons (e.g. it doesn't need to be
done in the kernel at all, hence blktap3).

Please check the list archives, this has been discussed a few times over
the last couple of years.

Ian.



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