From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>,
pv-drivers@vmware.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:27:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121030162723.GA16135@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030161807.GA9709@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:18:07AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > I think that even if we had a special directory for vmci having network
> > > drivers in Dave's realm and pvscsi in James's is best option, so the new
> > > directory would contain vmci and the balloon driver (vsock will go into
> > > net/). Given that balloon is already in drivers/misc it looked like
> > > obvious place for VMCI as well.
> >
> > I agree that the individual drivers should go in the subsystem area,
> > it's this "hypervisor bus core" type code that I'm questioning. Right
> > now every hypervisor is putting that logic in a different place in the
> > kernel, having some consistency here would be nice.
>
> Hmm, I wonder if miscellaneous and core hypervisor drivers should end
> up in drivers/platform:
>
> drivers/platform/hyperv
> drivers/platform/olpc
> drivers/platform/vmware
> drivers/platform/xen
> drivers/platform/x86
That makes sense to me, nice.
> But really we'd like to get VMCI into mainline first and move to a new
> place later if such a better place is found.
Heh, no one wants to fight for something to help everyone out, they just
want their own code accepted :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 1:03 [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:03 ` [PATCH 01/12] VMCI: context implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:07 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:10 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:01 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:46 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 1:03 ` [PATCH 02/12] VMCI: datagram implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 03/12] VMCI: doorbell implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 04/12] VMCI: device driver implementaton George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:21 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:23 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:15 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:49 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 05/12] VMCI: event handling implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:24 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:58 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:26 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:01 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 15:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 06/12] VMCI: handle array implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 07/12] VMCI: queue pairs implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:04 ` [PATCH 08/12] VMCI: resource object implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:29 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:20 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:51 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 16:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 2:29 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:21 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 09/12] VMCI: routing implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 10/12] VMCI: guest side driver implementation George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 11/12] VMCI: host " George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:32 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:22 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 2:38 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 2:19 ` [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming Greg KH
2012-10-30 4:07 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 15:48 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 16:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 16:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-10-30 19:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 19:59 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-21 20:31 George Zhang
2012-11-26 22:37 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:01 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:23 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:44 ` Greg KH
2012-11-26 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-26 23:56 ` George Zhang
2012-11-27 0:03 ` Greg KH
2012-11-27 0:27 ` Woody Suwalski
2012-11-27 0:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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