Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:00:35AM -0700, Chris Wright 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.

Any reason you're using the old crappy xen I/O code instead of Rusty's
alternative version?

Also please stop this stupid front/back naming.  In Linux terminology the
frontend is the client if there's a need for a postfix at all, and the
backend the server.  Compare that to e.g. ibm vio.
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