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[Xen-devel] [PATCH][XEN] remove include checks from domctl.h and sysctl.

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XEN] remove include checks from domctl.h and sysctl.h
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:33:49 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:59 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 15:10 +0000, Xen patchbot-unstable wrote:
> > 
> > >From here on we hope to maintain dom0 kernel compatibility. This
> > promise is not extended to tool compatibility beyond the existing
> > guarantee that compatibility will not be broken within a three-level
> > stable release [3.0.2, 3.0.3, etc.]. 
> 
> That's not going to be true for PowerPC and soon IA64.
> 
> Because of Xen's use of pointers for hypercall parameters, we need the
> kernel to translate virtual addresses to physical addresses. That means
> any time a new hypercall is introduced to the tools, our kernel needs to
> change to translate the new data structure.

Therefore, the following patch is required. Please apply.

[XEN] remove include checks from domctl.h and sysctl.h
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 2017f6e92bf8 xen/include/public/domctl.h
--- a/xen/include/public/domctl.h       Thu Aug 31 14:46:28 2006 +0100
+++ b/xen/include/public/domctl.h       Tue Sep 05 14:30:11 2006 -0500
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@

 #ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_DOMCTL_H__
 #define __XEN_PUBLIC_DOMCTL_H__
-
-#if !defined(__XEN__) && !defined(__XEN_TOOLS__)
-#error "domctl operations are intended for use by node control tools only"
-#endif

 #include "xen.h"

diff -r 2017f6e92bf8 xen/include/public/sysctl.h
--- a/xen/include/public/sysctl.h       Thu Aug 31 14:46:28 2006 +0100
+++ b/xen/include/public/sysctl.h       Tue Sep 05 14:30:41 2006 -0500
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@

 #ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_SYSCTL_H__
 #define __XEN_PUBLIC_SYSCTL_H__
-
-#if !defined(__XEN__) && !defined(__XEN_TOOLS__)
-#error "sysctl operations are intended for use by node control tools only"
-#endif

 #include "xen.h"
 #include "domctl.h"

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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