[PATCH 0/5] xen: cleanup detection of non-essential pv devices

Jan Beulich jbeulich at suse.com
Fri Oct 22 18:24:38 AEDT 2021


On 22.10.2021 08:47, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Today the non-essential pv devices are hard coded in the xenbus driver
> and this list is lacking multiple entries.
> 
> This series reworks the detection logic of non-essential devices by
> adding a flag for that purpose to struct xenbus_driver.

I'm wondering whether it wouldn't better be the other way around: The
(hopefully few) essential ones get flagged, thus also making it more
prominent during patch review that a flag gets added (and justification
provided), instead of having to spot the lack of a flag getting set.

Jan



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list