xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver

This communicates with the machine control software via a registry residing in a controlling virtual machine. This allows dynamic creation, destruction and modification of virtual device configurations (network devices, block devices and CPUS, to name some examples). [ Greg, would you mind giving this a review? Thanks -J ] Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Jul 18, 2007 · 4bac07c · 4bac07c
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diff --git a/drivers/xen/Makefile b/drivers/xen/Makefile
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 obj-y	+= grant-table.o
+obj-y	+= xenbus/
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/Makefile b/drivers/xen/xenbus/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+obj-y	+= xenbus.o
+
+xenbus-objs =
+xenbus-objs += xenbus_client.o
+xenbus-objs += xenbus_comms.o
+xenbus-objs += xenbus_xs.o
+xenbus-objs += xenbus_probe.o