Re: [Xen-devel] Most up to date blktap2 kernel driver

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:45 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Regarding kernels, xen.git seems to be missing the blktap2 driver:
> 
> http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=tree;f=drivers/xen;h=60ce8f2fa68504158843caefdbb8c6f149a37edf;hb=xen/stable-2.6.32.x
> 
> I only see a blktap folder, and no blktap2. Now I'm reading the code from:

The contents of drivers/blktap in that tree is the blktap2 kernel side.

> http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/file/0b8a9b22b70a/drivers/xen/blktap2
> 
> I have a couple of books regarding Xen, the most helpful one being
> "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" by David Chisnall, it has
> been very helpful in understanding grant tables, but it doesn't have
> any information regarding blktap/blktap2 driver internals, and I
> cannot find any information apart from the code itself. Is there any
> book that contains helpful information about the blktap
> implementation?

Sorry, not that I know of.

Ian.


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