netdev - Re: [PATCH] xen/pvhvm: If xen_platform

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Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:06:36 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, <leosilva@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	<ashley@...leylai.com>, <peterhuewe@....de>, <mail@...jiv.net>,
	<tpmdd@...horst.net>, <tpmdd@...rix.com>,
	<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	<plagnioj@...osoft.com>, <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	<tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/pvhvm: If xen_platform_pci=0 is set don't blow up.

On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 13:00 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 03/12/13 21:14, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > 
> > Ian Campbell suggested getting rid of 'xen_platform_pci_unplug'
> > but unfortunatly the xen-blkfront driver is using it, so we
> > cannot do it.
> 
> I had a look at what blkfront was using this for and it seems dumb.  How
> did we end up with the frontend driver working around toolstack bugs?
> If HVM Linux guest didn't want (e.g.,) PV CDROM, the toolstack shouldn't
> have created one.

Note that this cdrom stuff is actually nothing to do with the unplug
variable -- it just happens to be right next to that check.

Not that the use of the unplug var there doesn't also look pretty odd...


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