Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751086AbWHGFkv (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:40:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751089AbWHGFkb (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:40:31 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:21909 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751086AbWHGFk3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:40:29 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86 paravirt_ops: implementation of paravirt_ops Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:39:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Rusty Russell , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1154925835.21647.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154925943.21647.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154926048.21647.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1154926048.21647.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608070739.33428.ak@muc.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 18 On Monday 07 August 2006 06:47, Rusty Russell wrote: > This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized > instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently > these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors > will override the ops structure with their own variants. You should call it HAL - that would make it clearer what it is. I think I would prefer to patch always. Is there a particular reason you can't do that? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/