[ipxe-devel] Problem with ipxe on Xen 4.4

Eytan Heidingsfeld eytanh at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 23:44:53 UTC 2017


Hi,
Sorry for the delay,
Managed to test it locally too and it seems to fix the problem,
Thanks Too!

E

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 26/12/17 12:47, Michael Brown wrote:
>
>> On 25/12/17 11:20, Eytan Heidingsfeld wrote:
>>
>>> I retried with DEBUG=xenbus and saw that xenbus_probe_type failed for
>>> the device: device/suspend/event-channel (I think because it doesn't have a
>>> backend key - it is empty). As this device isn't critical for the usage of
>>> netfront I just commented out the error in xenbus_probe_type for one device
>>> and now it works fine.
>>>
>>> Is there any reason failing to probe the type of one device should fail
>>> the whole probe of the xenbus?
>>>
>>> I can formalize a patch the prints a warning with DBG and allows it to
>>> continue but I was wondering if there was any downside to that?
>>>
>>
>> Does the attached (untested) patch fix the problem?  This patch skips
>> probing any device type for which we don't have a driver anyway.
>>
>
> I checked that this patch did not cause a regression, and have pushed it as
>
>   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/e4461f6
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
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