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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: device: add simple registration mechanism for
 kvm_device_ops
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:17:57 +0200
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	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
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Il 26/06/2014 19:30, Will Deacon ha scritto:
> kvm_ioctl_create_device currently has knowledge of all the device types
> and their associated ops. This is fairly inflexible when adding support
> for new in-kernel device emulations, so move what we currently have out
> into a table, which can support dynamic registration of ops by new
> drivers for virtual hardware.
>
> I didn't try to port all current drivers over, as it's not always clear
> which initialisation hook the ops should be registered from.

Conny, Alex (Graf & Williamson),

can you help Will here?  The idea looks sane, but I'd rather merge it 
with all devices converted.

Paolo