From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [GIT] xenbus backend support for upstream Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: <20101213144851.GA12648@dumpdata.com> References: <1291992235.13966.5018.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1291992235.13966.5018.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Campbell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:43:55PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > The following git pull request adds the Xenbus infrastructure for Xen > backend drivers to the upstream 2.6.37-rc kernel. It essentially > refactors the frontend xenbus scaffolding into frontend and common and > then adds the backend part. > > All but one patch is cherry-picked from xen.git xen/dom0/backend/core. > It wasn't possible to simply merge the branch because that pulled in a > bunch of 2.6.32-style dom0 support which conflicts with what is now > upstream. > > The only cherry-picked patch which required changes was the "xen: > separate out frontend xenbus" commit which needed updating because the > code which it moves has changed since it was written (primarily the > changes to wait_for_devices e.g. c6e1971139be, f8dc33088feb, > ae7888012969). > > The last patch is new and fixes up the checkpatch issues in the > aggregate of the previous commits. I did it this way rather than fixing > individual patches since I wanted to retain the history as is. > > I have a WIP set of changes which port netback onto this infrastructure > (the port works but still uses PageForeign and hence is not > upstreamable). I also tested with a merge of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git > devel/xen-pciback-0.1 and the result seemed functional. Ok. It compiled for me fine and looks fine. I stuck it on my branch at linux-next