xen: do not disable netfront in dom0
authorMarek Marczykowski <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Sun, 20 May 2012 01:45:10 +0000 (01:45 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 22 May 2012 20:50:28 +0000 (16:50 -0400)
Netfront driver can be also useful in dom0, eg when all NICs are assigned to
some domU (aka driver domain). Then using netback in domU and netfront in dom0
is the only way to get network access in dom0.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c

index 0ebbb1906c308ba69ff0cff0125a84562e85116d..2027afe405fed60de8d0bf2dbe85a06456edcf28 100644 (file)
@@ -1962,9 +1962,6 @@ static int __init netif_init(void)
        if (!xen_domain())
                return -ENODEV;
 
-       if (xen_initial_domain())
-               return 0;
-
        if (xen_hvm_domain() && !xen_platform_pci_unplug)
                return -ENODEV;
 
@@ -1977,9 +1974,6 @@ module_init(netif_init);
 
 static void __exit netif_exit(void)
 {
-       if (xen_initial_domain())
-               return;
-
        xenbus_unregister_driver(&netfront_driver);
 }
 module_exit(netif_exit);