On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:14:48AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > > > It is, because pkgsrc softwares are expected to build and run on older
> > > > systems.
> > > 
> > > do you mean, we need to keep xentools in pkgsrc to use old version of
> > > IOCTL_PRIVCMD_INITDOMAIN_EVTCHN?
> 
> can you please answer this question?
> i want to change pkgsrc to use new version of the ioctl eventually.
> isn't it acceptable for you?

This is acceptable, but the kernel needs to be able to handle both for some
time.  Otherwise we'll have a problem for the upgrade (we need to upgrade both
the kenrel and tools at once, and this is something we want to avoid if 
possible)

> > Which means that you have to revert the pkgsrc source. not easy if you
> > don't have CVS access.
> 
> well, so what?
> all userland tools are the same in these respects.

Not really. Old tools with new kernel usually work.

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