On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/14 18:42, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 06:07:19PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote: > >> On 04/11/14 17:32, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:52:47AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > >>>> This was disabled by default in Xen 4.4. Since xend has now been > removed from > >>>> the tree I don't believe anything is using it. > >>> What about XenServer? > >> We are most definitely not using it, and haven’t used it in a very long > >> time. We explicitly nuke BLKTAP1 and BLKTAP2 from the Xen build. > >> > >>> And isn't there some blktap3 ? > >> https://github.com/xapi-project/blktap > >> > >>>> We need to pass an explicit CONFIG_BLKTAP1=n to qemu-xen-traditional > otherwise > >>>> it defaults to y and doesn't build. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> > >>>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> > >>>> --- > >>>> I think this has probably missed the boat for 4.5 and there isn't > much harm in > >>>> waiting for 4.6. I'm open to being told otherwise though ;-) > >>> You really want to be at the top of the commit list with the most > deleted > >>> code, eh? > >> /me suspects that he is already, but I for one am a fan of pruning dead > >> code. > > True, but we did talk about xend removal for quite a while before doing > it. > > > > However, I believe that the folks that did Remus look to be using it > > (And they have tons of patches against it). > > > > > > It is unclear to me whether they: > > - want to be the maintainers of it? > > - want to use blktap3 but haven't yet backported their patches. > > The remus patches are against blktap2, not blktap1. We currently have > both in-tree. > > More like prep patches for COLO stuff. No one that I am aware of is using blktap2 with Remus. So if blktap2 is being kept around just for Remus' sake, please feel free to axe it. > ~Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >
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