Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] stubdom/vtpm: Add reconfiguration support

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(can you not top post please)

On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 18:53 +0000, Matthew Fioravante wrote:
> The purpose of this is to allow 2 entities in the same vm to use tpm 
> drivers, pv_grub and the linux guest. The Xenbus Reconfigure states are 
> new to me. Is this intended behavior in line with the original purpose 
> of the Reconfigure states or are we hijacking them to do something not 
> in the original xen front/back driver spec?

I'm not sure there was ever such a thing.

The reconfigure states were originally added by the pcifront/back
drivers which used them to implement device hotplug iirc.

It's looks to me like the use case here is more akin to the "online"
node which the block and net stuff has?

Ian.


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