On 04/02/2019 13:58, Wei Liu wrote:
> This utility can't possibly work with modern Xen setup: none of the
> sysfs path used (under /sys/devices/xen-backend) is documented as
> stable ABI in upstream Linux kernel.
>
> Archaeology shows that the path used could have been part of the
> xenolinux fork which never got upstreamed.
>
> It's utility is zero nowadays. Drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>

It definitely used to "work" with the classic-xen kernels.

However, its utility was worse than zero.  When it did end up poking the
back drivers, it ended up masking bugs.

XenServer got rather more stable when I dropped this locally, as we
actually found and fixed the missing interrupt bug.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>

~Andrew

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