Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 2010 16:20:03 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix name of Xen event-channel device |
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On 05/27/2010 10:13 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > The udev rules will just not longer match, as they only rename the > device, this is no problem. However libxc _will_ break, as it lacks > proper error check in its own device creation routine. >
Yeah, that's really annoying. I can't change the kernel without also having a flag day to update libxc. I guess we could make sure all the stable Xen branches get a libxc fix backported to them, but I wonder if it would break other toolstacks?
> However there are not much possibilities here: this support will go away > and it will annoy every user for some time. >
But if we don't make any kernel changes then libxc will muddle on even if udev stops handling the device name properly?
J
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