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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual devic

To: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver.
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 15:50:50 -0700
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* Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) 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.
thanks,
-chris
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