Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:39:01 +0000 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend |
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On 26/02/15 13:35, Juergen Gross wrote: > Introduces the Xen pvUSB backend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen > domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The > communication is all done via the pvUSB backend in a driver domain > (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device.
Why do we need a kernel usb backend instead of a user-space one using libusb?
> Changes from the original version are: > - port to upstream kernel > - put all code in just one source file
?? I'm not sure that was an improvement. The resulting single file is too large IMO.
> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
drivers/xen/ is the correct location for this driver.
(I've not given the driver a detailed review yet.)
David
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