Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 9 May 2006 15:50:50 -0700 | | From | Chris Wright <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver. |
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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > Either. You seem to mention a lot of nested depths in sysfs or "files", > yet your above tree doesn't show that. And I don't understand what you > mean by frontend/backend here either? Is it a sysfs thing? Or a Xen > thing?
The files are xenstore, it's part of the communication between frontend and backend. The frontend is the device driver in the guest domain which is just an I/O channel to the backend driver. The backend is in the driver domain where the physical hardware can be driven.
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