Re: [PATCH] Fix name of Xen event-channel device

From: Michael Tokarev
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 12:50:46 EST


Bastian Blank wrote:
> The Xen event-channel device is named evtchn in the kernel but always
> used as /dev/xen/evtchn in userspace. This patch fixes the name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/evtchn.c b/drivers/xen/evtchn.c
> index 66e185c..89cd743 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/evtchn.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/evtchn.c
> @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static const struct file_operations evtchn_fops = {
>
> static struct miscdevice evtchn_miscdev = {
> .minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
> - .name = "evtchn",
> + .name = "xen/evtchn",

Um. Will existing userspace - esp. udev rules - continue
to work after this change? Also, how about other xen-related
devices which are moved to /dev/xen in that same udev rules?

Thanks!

/mjt
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