Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: removing hardcoded "modprobe blktap" in xencommons

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 15.07.13 at 10:26, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So my point is, if every driver follows the kernel convention
> (open(/dev/XYZ) would cause the module to load automatically) there then
> would be minimal changes to libxl. It is unmaintained kernel modules
> like blktap makes it not feasible to make things simplier.
> 
> (Wild guess below, correct me if I'm wrong)
> 
> Say, if we could make it just like open(blkback_char_dev), the loading
> is just a one-liner and doesn't need to be using libxl's AO interface.

Once again - most if not all backends don't fit that model - blktap
as said doesn't and neither blkback nor netback don't as they don't
create any /dev nodes.

Backend module loading might be triggerable through xenstore
node watches...

Jan


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