Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:08:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 04:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> This patch implements a cleaned up hypervisor layer, plus cleans up some
> >> of the aspects of both Hank's MS-HyperV patch and the existing VMware
> >> driver.  In particular, the MS-HyperV information is private
> >> information, per system, not per CPU, and can thus simply be stored in
> >> an ordinary global variable.  This also turns the hypervisor detection
> >> into an information structure instead of just an identifier.
> > 
> > This looks great to me, thanks for doing this work.
> > 
> > As this is a diff on top of my previous patch, do you want me to merge
> > it in with it and resend it, or will you?
> > 
> 
> I was planning to put this on top of your patch as a second commit, just
> to preserve history and authorship.

Wonderful.

Ah, I just realized that we cut-and-pasted the GPL lines from the vmware
file, I don't want the "v2 or later" marking on the new file KY added.
Want me to send an add-on patch to fix that up?

thanks,

greg k-h