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SubjectRe: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:07:44PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:19:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:03:28PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> > > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1
> > > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 2
> > > > drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Kconfig | 16
> > > > drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Makefile | 43
> > >
> > > Meta comment here, why drivers/misc/? The other hypervisor
> > > infrastructures all have their own directory under drivers/ Should we
> > > be moving everything to drivers/hyperv/ somehow?
> >
> > drivers/hyperv is not the best name for obvious reasons...
>
> Sorry, yes :)

:)

>
> > I think that even if we had a special directory for vmci having network
> > drivers in Dave's realm and pvscsi in James's is best option, so the new
> > directory would contain vmci and the balloon driver (vsock will go into
> > net/). Given that balloon is already in drivers/misc it looked like
> > obvious place for VMCI as well.
>
> I agree that the individual drivers should go in the subsystem area,
> it's this "hypervisor bus core" type code that I'm questioning. Right
> now every hypervisor is putting that logic in a different place in the
> kernel, having some consistency here would be nice.

Hmm, I wonder if miscellaneous and core hypervisor drivers should end
up in drivers/platform:

drivers/platform/hyperv
drivers/platform/olpc
drivers/platform/vmware
drivers/platform/xen
drivers/platform/x86

But really we'd like to get VMCI into mainline first and move to a new
place later if such a better place is found.

Thanks,
Dmitry


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