Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 04/13] pvh/acpi: Install handlers for ACPI-related PVH IO accesses

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/20/2016 09:55 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> Is this file is not supposed to be used by anyone outside of the Xen tree?
>> I don't think so, no. In any event - prior additions did not do
>> any precautions to guard possible foreign consumers. Maybe
>> Andrew has an opinion here ...
> Our policies along these lines are a mess.  We really should separate
> the guest ABI/API from the toolstack ABI/API, and by this, I mean having
> separate directory structures.
>
> In the meantime, all of the content in this file is only useful to
> entities which can make DOMCTLs to start with, so the entire file should
> be restricted to Xen/tools only.

I can add that but it should be done as a separate patch as it has
nothing to do with what the series is trying to provide.

-boris

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