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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V4 08/13] xenbus_client: extend interface to
 support mapping / unmapping of multi page ring.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:20:25 +0000
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On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:55 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:49:18PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > 
> 
> So this does the job but with this patch you introduce a compile bisection
> bug, which is a not good. The way around is that in this patch you also
> introduce temporary scaffolding so that the drivers can build. Something
> as simple as an function that calls the new version, but has the right
> arguments. Then the next patch (the one that actually does change
> the backends, will back that wrapper out).
> 

How about squashing these two patches. The changes in backends are
trivial.


Wei.