On 07/28/2015 02:49 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > El 28/07/15 a les 13.12, Ian Campbell ha escrit: >> On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 16:13 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote: >>> The functionality provided by xenbackendd has been integrated into the xl >>> toolstack under the devd command on all platforms, because of that it no >>> longer makes sense to maintain xenbackendd. >>> >>> Init scripts have also been provided for all platforms in order to launch >>> xl >>> devd in the background, mimicking the functionality provided by >>> xenbackendd. >>> Furthermore, xenbackendd is not started by default on NetBSD since a >>> couple >>> of releases ago (4.2 was the first release to disable the automatic >>> startup >>> of xenbackendd in xencommons). >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> >>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> >>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com> >>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> >>> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> >>> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> >>> Cc: <port-...@netbsd.org> >> >> I thought I'd replied to this, but the archive and my Sent box both >> disagree. Anyway: >> >> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> >> >> Probably not 4.6 material any more though? > > Although the risk of this breaking other things is very low IMHO, I > don't see much benefit of pushing it to 4.6. It's not going to make the > release better or less buggy.
Well, and given that the NetBSD guys have objected before, it might be seen as a bit dodgy to shove a change in at the last minute with no opportunity for them to object again. Given it's just getting rid of dead code, there's no urgency. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
