Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH XEN v4 06/23] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for xc_gnt{shr, tab}

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:23:13PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The alternative backend (a xen-api/xapi shim) is no longer around and
> so this stuff is now just baggage which is getting in the way of
> refactoring libxenctrl.
> 
> Nested virt probably suffices for this use case now.
> 
> It is now necessary to provide explicit versions of things for
> platforms which do not implement this functionality, since the osdep
> dispatcher cannot fulfil this need any more. These are provided by
> appropriate xc_nognt???.c files which are compiled and linked on the
> appropriate platforms. In them open and close return failure and
> everything else aborts, since if open fails they should never be
> called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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