From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755160AbbCDNpH (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:45:07 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43322 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752207AbbCDNpF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:45:05 -0500 Message-ID: <54F70C5E.50902@suse.com> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:45:02 +0100 From: Juergen Gross User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Campbell CC: David Vrabel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, cyliu@suse.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend References: <1424957717-392-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <1424957717-392-4-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <54F44BD5.1030008@citrix.com> <54F7091C.1050001@suse.com> <1425476473.25940.158.camel@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <1425476473.25940.158.camel@citrix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/04/2015 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 14:31 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree >>> >>> drivers/xen/ is the correct location for this driver. >> >> Hmm, so you regard placement of xen-netback under drivers/net and >> xen-blkback under drivers/block as wrong? I've just followed these >> examples. > > At least in the case of netback it really is just a normal Ethernet > driver as far as the kernel is concerned. The fact it happens to talk to > a virtual device doesn't matter. > > I don't know about other device types. usbback is just a normal USB driver as far as the kernel is concerned. :-) Juergen