Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Cleaning up /proc/xen

[Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Is this going to make having udev a requirement? (or would we also mknod
>some entries in de as part of an install?)
>
>I guess most distros have had udev for a while.

Yes - though it'd be good to fix udev start (which takes ages, at least
on redhat root filesystems). 

>> We have a few options for /proc/xen/balloon.  We could:
>
>> 1) Get rid of it completely--not sure it's a good idea but=20
>> it's been suggested since it's redundant (in dom0 at least).
>> 2) Move it to /proc/sys/
>> 3) Move it to /sys/xen
>
>I can't decide between 2 and 3.

There's also 0 = leave it as is.

What's the motivation for this clean-up again? 

>BTW: Anthony, as regards you directory re-organisation patch, should we
>be taking the opportunity to add a version prefix e.g.
>/usr/lib64/xen-3.0/bin  ?
>(also, does your patch use /usr/lib64/xen on x86_64 OK?)
>
>I wander whether /etc/xen/scripts would be better off living under
>/usr/lib/xen-3.0/scripts ?
>
>Should the default place to look for config file be /usr/lib/xen-3.0/etc
>which is normally soft linked on install to /etc/xen ?
>
>I think the above three changes would enable you to have 3.0 and 2.0
>tools installed in both x86_64 and x86_32 flavours all at the same time.

Hmm - how would we get the relevant python bits picked up? 

cheers,

S

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