From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
<david.vrabel@citrix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
<linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
<cyliu@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:39:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F44BD5.1030008@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424957717-392-4-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On 26/02/15 13:35, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Introduces the Xen pvUSB backend. 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.
Why do we need a kernel usb backend instead of a user-space one using
libusb?
> Changes from the original version are:
> - port to upstream kernel
> - put all code in just one source file
?? I'm not sure that was an improvement. The resulting single file is
too large IMO.
> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
drivers/xen/ is the correct location for this driver.
(I've not given the driver a detailed review yet.)
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-26 13:35 [PATCH 0/4] xen, usb: support pvUSB drivers Juergen Gross
2015-02-26 13:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description Juergen Gross
2015-02-26 13:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB frontend Juergen Gross
2015-02-26 14:09 ` Oliver Neukum
2015-02-26 13:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend Juergen Gross
2015-03-02 11:39 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2015-03-04 13:31 ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
2015-03-04 13:41 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-04 13:45 ` Juergen Gross
2015-03-04 13:53 ` David Vrabel
2015-03-04 14:09 ` Juergen Gross
2015-03-04 14:19 ` David Vrabel
2015-03-04 14:29 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-04 14:41 ` Juergen Gross
2015-03-04 14:43 ` Peter Stuge
2015-03-04 14:46 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-06 10:59 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2015-03-06 12:52 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-03-04 15:27 ` Greg KH
2015-03-04 15:31 ` Juergen Gross
2015-02-26 13:35 ` [PATCH 4/4] xen: add Xen pvUSB maintainer Juergen Gross
2015-02-26 17:25 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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