Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 08/17] xenstored: add FreeBSD xenstored device paths

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 11:15 +0200, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> On 05/06/14 17:20, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 17:08 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >> +#elif defined(__FreeBSD__)
> >> +#define XENSTORED_KVA_DEV  "/dev/xen/xenstored"
> >> +#define XENSTORED_PORT_DEV "/dev/xen/xenstored"
> > 
> > Assuming these are really both supposed to be the same:
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Yes, it's the same device:
> 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/royger/freebsd.git;a=patch;h=d4add101f0846c064001037d14c185dfe6d2f50e
> 
> In fact I don't really understand why Linux has two different devices,
> probably a legacy issue?

They used to be /proc/xen/foo which contained the raw numbers rather
than having ioctls done etc. Might be somethign to do with that.

> 
> Roger.
> 



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