From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zan Lynx Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH] KVM: introduce "xinterface" API for external interaction with guests Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:38:39 -0600 Message-ID: <4A5F81BF.5000301@acm.org> References: <20090716150323.29318.17714.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090716151945.29318.10882.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <200907161852.42071.arnd@arndb.de> <4A5F6FF4.2090706@novell.com> <4A5F773C.2020303@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arnd Bergmann , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, glommer@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A5F773C.2020303@novell.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Gregory Haskins wrote: > Gregory Haskins wrote: >> Note that if we are going to generalize the interface to support other >> guests as you may have been suggesting above, it should probably stay >> statically linked (and perhaps live in ./lib or something) >> > > More specifically, it can no longer live in kvm.ko. I guess it > technically doesn't have to be statically linked, though (e.g. > xinterface.ko is fine, too). Speaking as someone who knows nothing about this, if this is going to be a module and visible in places like lsmod, could you name it something else? I see "xinterface.ko" and the first thing in my head is "something to do with the X Window System." How about kvm_xinterface or vguest_xinterface? -- Zan Lynx zlynx@acm.org "Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil."