Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:27:23 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming |
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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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