From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
adaplas@pol.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:31:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BF4D5B.5020509@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763whbiy8.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>
Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:
>
>
>> Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>>> This is a pair of Xen para-virtual frontend device drivers:
>>> drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c provides a framebuffer, and
>>> drivers/input/xen-kbdfront provides keyboard and mouse.
>>>
>>>
>> Unless they're actually inter-dependent, could you post this as two
>> separate patches? I don't know anything about these parts of the
>> kernel, so it would be nice to make it very obvious which changes are
>> fb vs mouse/keyboard.
>>
>
> I could do that do that, but the intermediate step (one driver, not
> the other) is somewhat problematic: the backend in dom0 needs both
> drivers, and will refuse to complete device initialization unless
> they're both present.
>
That's OK. In that case keep them together.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 9:42 [PATCH 0/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer Markus Armbruster
2008-02-21 9:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized Markus Armbruster
2008-02-21 16:30 ` Jaya Kumar
2008-02-21 17:31 ` Markus Armbruster
2008-02-21 9:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver Markus Armbruster
2008-02-21 16:37 ` Jaya Kumar
2008-02-21 20:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-22 6:31 ` Markus Armbruster
2008-02-22 22:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-02-21 11:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer Markus Armbruster
2008-02-21 19:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-21 20:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2008-02-21 22:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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