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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen/pvhvm: If xen_platform_pci=0 is set don't blow up.
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On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 13:00 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 03/12/13 21:14, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >
> > Ian Campbell suggested getting rid of 'xen_platform_pci_unplug'
> > but unfortunatly the xen-blkfront driver is using it, so we
> > cannot do it.
>
> I had a look at what blkfront was using this for and it seems dumb. How
> did we end up with the frontend driver working around toolstack bugs?
> If HVM Linux guest didn't want (e.g.,) PV CDROM, the toolstack shouldn't
> have created one.

Note that this cdrom stuff is actually nothing to do with the unplug
variable -- it just happens to be right next to that check.

Not that the use of the unplug var there doesn't also look pretty odd...




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