From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754327Ab0EGXQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 19:16:23 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:44259 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524Ab0EGXQW (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 19:16:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:12:02 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ky Srinivasan , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Hank Janssen , Thomas Gleixner , Alok Kataria Subject: Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer Message-ID: <20100507231202.GA13771@kroah.com> References: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com> <20100507230210.GB24877@kroah.com> <4BE49D76.5000001@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BE49D76.5000001@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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