From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752120Ab3LLSrP (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:47:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44354 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751171Ab3LLSrM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:47:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 0/2] vfio: convert to misc driver To: alex.williamson@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org From: Alex Williamson Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:47:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20131212184402.966.34502.stgit@bling.home> User-Agent: StGit/0.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The control device is pretty easily converted to a misc driver with static minor number which allows us to support auto load. I've submitted a request to lanana for the minor number reservation, so this is mostly FYI until that's approved. Comments and reviews welcome. Thanks, Alex --- Alex Williamson (2): misc: Reserve minor for VFIO vfio: Convert control interface to misc driver Documentation/devices.txt | 1 + drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)