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    SubjectRe: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming
    On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:18:07AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
    > > > 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

    That makes sense to me, nice.

    > 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.

    Heh, no one wants to fight for something to help everyone out, they just
    want their own code accepted :)

    greg k-h


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