From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:32:47 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: libxl: remove the gate that only allows block or regular backing images
X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/4.8.0-1+rpi1~1^2~4761
X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ebbcc0bf0f052e70de2e6d68731dd3224eed4bbe;p=xen.git

libxl: remove the gate that only allows block or regular backing images

On FreeBSD ZVOLs/disks/partitions are char devices, so libxl must
allow it's usage. This is already taken care in the OS-specific bits
of libxl by libxl__try_phy_backend, so remove the generic gate.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
---

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c
index 788895b9b2..f8a2e1ba92 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_device.c
@@ -265,12 +265,6 @@ int libxl__device_disk_set_backend(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_device_disk *disk) {
                         disk->vdev, disk->pdev_path);
             return ERROR_INVAL;
         }
-        if (!S_ISBLK(a.stab.st_mode) &
-            !S_ISREG(a.stab.st_mode)) {
-            LOG(ERROR, "Disk vdev=%s phys path is not a block dev or file: %s",
-                       disk->vdev, disk->pdev_path);
-            return ERROR_INVAL;
-        }
     }
 
     if (disk->backend != LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_UNKNOWN) {