From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753583Ab0EER3p (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 13:29:45 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.115.85.69]:29887 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753405Ab0EER3n (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 13:29:43 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov Organization: VMware, Inc. To: pv-drivers@vmware.com Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:29:40 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.34-rc5; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Pankaj Thakkar , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" References: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com> <20100505172316.GA25338@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100505172316.GA25338@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005051029.42052.dtor@vmware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 05 May 2010 10:23:16 am Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:02:25PM -0700, Pankaj Thakkar wrote: > > The plugin image is provided by the IHVs along with the PF driver and is > > packaged in the hypervisor. The plugin image is OS agnostic and can be > > loaded either into a Linux VM or a Windows VM. The plugin is written > > against the Shell API interface which the shell is responsible for > > implementing. The API > > We're not going to add any kind of loader for binry blobs into kernel > space, sorry. Don't even bother wasting your time on this. > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under GPL. The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel modules. -- Dmitry