>From: Ewan Mellor [mailto:ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 2005年9月20日 21:12
>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:41:09PM +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>
>> If making following temp hack in XendDomainInfo.py:
>>
>> back = { 'type' : type,
>> 'params' : params,
>> 'frontend' : frontpath,
>> - 'frontend-id' : "%i" % self.domid }
>> + 'frontend-id' : "%i" % self.domid,
>> + 'physical-device' : "%li" %
>blkdev_name_to_number(params) }
>> xstransact.Write(backpath, back)
>>
>> Then physical-device is created under backend and the communication can be
>> setup. However this hard code definitely breaks existing logical
>> behind. Should I do any specific configuration? From the Blkctl.py, it said
>> that "phy" type doesn't require bind/unbind script, but I didn't find the
>> place to add that item specifically. ;-(
>
>Hi Kevin,
>
>The key physical-device is created inside the block-phy script, as I think you
>found. This is called by xen-backend.agent, which in turn is called by the
>Linux hotplug system (keying off the name 'xen-backend'). The file Blkctl.py
>is completely unused, AFAICT, and should be removed.
>
>The problems that you are having starting your device are probably down to a
>broken or nonexistent installation of the hotplug system. You should check
>that first. If your hotplug system is working, then maybe you are failing to
>find xenstore-write.
>
>HTH,
>
>Ewan.
Hi, Ewan,
Thanks for your description about the work flow. Actually I found the
cause from bad lines in xen-backend.script, which has already been fixed by
Keir several days ago. After removing the bad lines, the "physical-device" can
be created automatically.
Thanks,
Kevin
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