On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 03:08:42PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: > This patch adds a creator function for XenBlockDevice-s so that they can > be created automatically when the Xen toolstack instantiates a new > PV backend. When the XenBlockDevice is created this way it is also > necessary to create a drive which matches the configuration that the Xen > toolstack has written into xenstore. This drive is marked 'auto_del' so > that it will be removed when the XenBlockDevice is destroyed. Also, for > compatibility with the legacy 'xen_disk' implementation, an iothread > is automatically created for the new XenBlockDevice. This will also be > removed when the XenBlockDevice is destroyed. > > Correspondingly the legacy backend scan for 'qdisk' is removed. > > After this patch is applied the legacy 'xen_disk' code is redundant. It > will be removed by a subsequent patch. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <[email protected]> Thanks, -- Anthony PERARD _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
