Re: [patch 20/20] XEN-paravirt: Add Xen virtual block device driver.

On Jan 12 2007 17:45, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
>devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
>block device driver.

Is this significantly different from ubd/hostfs that it actually warrants a
reinvention?

>+	(void)xenbus_switch_state(info->xbdev, XenbusStateConnected);

Cast remove, if xenbus_switch_state does not have __must_check.
Also elsewhere.


	-`J'
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