Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH XEN v4 08/23] tools/libxc: Remove osdep indirection for privcmd

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:23:15PM +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.
> 
> This was the last component of the osdep infrastructure, so all the
> dynamic loading etc stuff all falls away too.
> 
> As part of this I was forced to investigate the twisty
> xc_map_foreign_* maze, which I have added to the
> toolstack-library-apis doc in the hopes of doing something sensible.
> 
> NetBSD and Solaris now call xc_map_foreign_bulk_compat directly from
> their xc_map_foreign_bulk, which could have been achieved by using
> some ifdefs around a renamed function. This will fall out in the wash
> when these functions move to their own library.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Scott <dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Scott <dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxx>

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

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