Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 5/6] frontend device shutdown

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/8/06 1:25 pm, "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've gone some way to cleaning this up in changeset 11203, which instead has
> xenbus_read_driver_state() return XenbusStateUnknown if the frontend
> directory is missing. You should use this to distinguish the Closed and
> Unkown states in the backend drivers: this will mean that you won't need to
> avoid entering state Closed in the frontend drivers.

By the way, changing this frontend behaviour may mean you need to tweak your
patch to the backend drivers, allowing reconnection, which I already checked
in (changeset 11194). I'm not sure though: maybe that patch will still work.

 -- Keir



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