From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V2 2/3] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:06:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150612180641.GB23012@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557B09EA.6000503@citrix.com>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:33:46PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 12/06/15 17:20, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >> Introduces the Xen pvUSB frontend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen
> >> domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The
> >> communication is all done via the pvUSB backend in a driver domain
> >> (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device.
> >>
> >> The code is taken from the pvUSB implementation in Xen done by Fujitsu
> >> based on Linux kernel 2.6.18.
> >>
> >> Changes from the original version are:
> >> - port to upstream kernel
> >> - put all code in just one source file
> >> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
> >> - adapt to Linux style guide
> >> - minor code modifications to increase readability
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/usb/Kconfig | 2 +
> >> drivers/usb/Makefile | 2 +
> >> drivers/usb/xen/Kconfig | 10 +
> >> drivers/usb/xen/Makefile | 5 +
> >> drivers/usb/xen/xen-usbfront.c | 1647 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > A subdirectory for a single file? That seems like overkill, don't you
> > think? As this is a USB "host" driver, why not put it in that
> > directory?
> >
> > Also, last time these patches were posted, people asked why you can't
> > use libusb/usbfs instead, what happened with that? Or usbip?
>
> Using libusb was for the backend driver. This frontend driver is a host
> controller (which is why it should be drivers/usb/host/xen-pv-hcd.c or
> similar).
Then document the heck out of that please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-12 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-12 14:09 [Patch V2 0/3] xen, usb: support pvUSB frontend driver Juergen Gross
2015-06-12 14:09 ` [Patch V2 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description Juergen Gross
2015-06-12 16:23 ` Greg KH
2015-06-15 4:04 ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-12 14:10 ` [Patch V2 2/3] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend Juergen Gross
2015-06-12 16:20 ` Greg KH
2015-06-12 16:33 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-06-12 18:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-06-15 4:36 ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-12 14:10 ` [Patch V2 3/3] xen: add Xen pvUSB maintainer Juergen Gross
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