Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.12] tools: drop obsolete xen-ringwatch

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 04/02/2019 13:58, Wei Liu wrote: > This utility can't possibly work with modern Xen setup: none of the > sysfs path used (under /sys/devices/xen-backend) is documented as > stable ABI in upstream Linux kernel. > > Archaeology shows that the path used could have been part of the > xenolinux fork

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.12] tools: drop obsolete xen-ringwatch

2019-02-04 Thread Wei Liu
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:58:24PM +, Wei Liu wrote: > This utility can't possibly work with modern Xen setup: none of the > sysfs path used (under /sys/devices/xen-backend) is documented as > stable ABI in upstream Linux kernel. > > Archaeology shows that the path used could have been part

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.12] tools: drop obsolete xen-ringwatch

2019-02-04 Thread Juergen Gross
On 04/02/2019 14:58, Wei Liu wrote: > This utility can't possibly work with modern Xen setup: none of the > sysfs path used (under /sys/devices/xen-backend) is documented as > stable ABI in upstream Linux kernel. > > Archaeology shows that the path used could have been part of the > xenolinux

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.12] tools: drop obsolete xen-ringwatch

2019-02-04 Thread Wei Liu
This utility can't possibly work with modern Xen setup: none of the sysfs path used (under /sys/devices/xen-backend) is documented as stable ABI in upstream Linux kernel. Archaeology shows that the path used could have been part of the xenolinux fork which never got upstreamed. It's utility is