Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 19:18:51 EST


On 05/07/2010 04:12 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:08:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 05/07/2010 04:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> This patch implements a cleaned up hypervisor layer, plus cleans up some
>>>> of the aspects of both Hank's MS-HyperV patch and the existing VMware
>>>> driver. In particular, the MS-HyperV information is private
>>>> information, per system, not per CPU, and can thus simply be stored in
>>>> an ordinary global variable. This also turns the hypervisor detection
>>>> into an information structure instead of just an identifier.
>>>
>>> This looks great to me, thanks for doing this work.
>>>
>>> As this is a diff on top of my previous patch, do you want me to merge
>>> it in with it and resend it, or will you?
>>>
>>
>> I was planning to put this on top of your patch as a second commit, just
>> to preserve history and authorship.
>
> Wonderful.
>
> Ah, I just realized that we cut-and-pasted the GPL lines from the vmware
> file, I don't want the "v2 or later" marking on the new file KY added.
> Want me to send an add-on patch to fix that up?
>

Yes please.

-hpa
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