Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming

[Greg KH]

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
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