Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model forvbus_driver objects

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Aug 15 2009 - 06:33:15 EST



* Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This will generally be used for hypervisors to publish any host-side
> virtual devices up to a guest. The guest will have the opportunity
> to consume any devices present on the vbus-proxy as if they were
> platform devices, similar to existing buses like PCI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> MAINTAINERS | 6 ++
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/Makefile | 1
> drivers/vbus/Kconfig | 14 ++++
> drivers/vbus/Makefile | 3 +
> drivers/vbus/bus-proxy.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/vbus_driver.h | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 7 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/bus-proxy.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/vbus_driver.h

Is there a consensus on this with the KVM folks? (i've added the KVM
list to the Cc:)

Ingo
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