Re: [PATCH 0/5] xen: cleanup detection of non-essential pv devices

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 11/22/21 3:20 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 22.10.21 08:47, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > Today the non-essential pv devices are hard coded in the xenbus driver
> > and this list is lacking multiple entries.
> >
> > This series reworks the detection logic of non-essential devices by
> > adding a flag for that purpose to struct xenbus_driver.
> >
> > Juergen Gross (5):
> >    xen: add "not_essential" flag to struct xenbus_driver
> >    xen: flag xen_drm_front to be not essential for system boot
> >    xen: flag hvc_xen to be not essential for system boot
> >    xen: flag pvcalls-front to be not essential for system boot
> >    xen: flag xen_snd_front to be not essential for system boot
> >
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front.c        |  1 +
> >   drivers/input/misc/xen-kbdfront.c          |  1 +
> >   drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c                  |  1 +
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/xen-fbfront.c          |  1 +
> >   drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c                |  1 +
> >   drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_frontend.c | 14 +++-----------
> >   include/xen/xenbus.h                       |  1 +
> >   sound/xen/xen_snd_front.c                  |  1 +
> >   8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)



Applied to for-linus-5.16c


-boris