From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.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: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:45:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F70C5E.50902@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425476473.25940.158.camel@citrix.com>
On 03/04/2015 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 14:31 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
>>>
>>> drivers/xen/ is the correct location for this driver.
>>
>> Hmm, so you regard placement of xen-netback under drivers/net and
>> xen-blkback under drivers/block as wrong? I've just followed these
>> examples.
>
> At least in the case of netback it really is just a normal Ethernet
> driver as far as the kernel is concerned. The fact it happens to talk to
> a virtual device doesn't matter.
>
> I don't know about other device types.
usbback is just a normal USB driver as far as the kernel is concerned.
:-)
Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-04 13:45 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 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-03-04 13:31 ` Juergen Gross
2015-03-04 13:41 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-04 13:45 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
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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