Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard andpointer driver

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> 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
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