Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC XEN PATCH v2 15/15] tools/misc: add xen-ndctl

[Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/29/17 21:11 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Haozhong Zhang
> <haozhong.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > xen-ndctl is a tool for users in Dom0 to setup the host pmem with Xen
> > hypervisor. It's used to specify the storage, which is either the
> > regular RAM or a pmem range, to manage the specified pmem.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> I would be open to moving this tooling into upstream ndctl [1].
> Especially since you're reusing the same name it would be confusing to
> have 2 ndctl tools.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl

Then it could leverage existing code in ndctl (e.g. getting parameters
from a device name rather than using address in my current implementation).

I'm not sure about Xen's policy whether a tool should be included in
Xen or can be left in 3rd party program. Let's wait for Xen maintainers' reply.

Thanks,
Haozhong

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