From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936427AbWK3OY6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:24:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936428AbWK3OY6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:24:58 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:43461 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936427AbWK3OY5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:24:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:24:35 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Avi Kivity , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module Message-ID: <20061130142435.GA13372@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <456AD5C6.1090406@qumranet.com> <20061127121136.DC69A25015E@cleopatra.q> <20061127123606.GA11825@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061127123606.GA11825@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Avi Kivity wrote: > > > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h > > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h > > please move this from drivers/kvm/ to kernel/kvm/ [or even into a > toplevel kvm/ directory] - KVM is not a "driver", KVM enhances the core > Linux kernel with hypervisor functionality. Actually it's exactly a driver. It's a character driver that exposes the virtualization features of modern x86 hardware. Pretty similar to things like the msr or mtrr driver that expose cpu features as character drivers aswell.