Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 4.8 merge window

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Aug 03 2016 - 07:00:30 EST




On 03/08/2016 08:46, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Considering the h in "hmi" is for hypervisor,
>
> Well hypervisor != KVM.
>
> Though in this case hmi.c was pretty safe because it was new code. But
> if I'd received a powerpc patch to hmi.c I wouldn't have thought to
> check if it conflicted with the KVM tree.

This, together with the fact that hmi.c does nothing if KVM is
inactive, suggests to me that hmi.c should be in arch/powerpc/kvm.
I'll send a patch soo; I don't care who merges it, but a topic
branch would be appropriate. ;)

Paolo