Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933181AbZGPTsg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933164AbZGPTse (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:34 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.242]:12467 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933132AbZGPTsd (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=NRxxdBB8gKlsUrC30Is3gO4dZKvT4JAqgtXR3Zb5TS2iObdSuX8WYNxYlbiigC8iog Lid0+oo9KUXdaNNLCw1+0zPnpUGFDNgcZjlxWUSrW7dazk/W/nBxfkRtQMcL2Ut8cHRD 9ccYoLVWBdF0endkqC2y88KEAB3LYRxjJhUUk= Message-ID: <4A5F8404.1040408@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:20 -0400 From: Gregory Haskins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zan Lynx CC: Gregory Haskins , Arnd Bergmann , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, glommer@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH] KVM: introduce "xinterface" API for external interaction with guests References: <20090716150323.29318.17714.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090716151945.29318.10882.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <200907161852.42071.arnd@arndb.de> <4A5F6FF4.2090706@novell.com> <4A5F773C.2020303@novell.com> <4A5F81BF.5000301@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <4A5F81BF.5000301@acm.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig014880A7936364E9D5EE3287" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1899 Lines: 58 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig014880A7936364E9D5EE3287 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Zan Lynx wrote: > Gregory Haskins wrote: >> Gregory Haskins wrote: >>> Note that if we are going to generalize the interface to support othe= r >>> guests as you may have been suggesting above, it should probably stay= >>> statically linked (and perhaps live in ./lib or something) >>> =20 >> >> More specifically, it can no longer live in kvm.ko. I guess it >> technically doesn't have to be statically linked, though (e.g. >> xinterface.ko is fine, too). > > Speaking as someone who knows nothing about this, if this is going to > be a module and visible in places like lsmod, could you name it > something else? > > I see "xinterface.ko" and the first thing in my head is "something to > do with the X Window System." > > How about kvm_xinterface or vguest_xinterface? > Heh, I totally agree. That was just pseudo-naming, anyway. ;) If it was going to be generic, I would do something like "virt-xinterface.ko". Kind Regards, -Greg --------------enig014880A7936364E9D5EE3287 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpfhAgACgkQP5K2CMvXmqH3AwCeNydw8IcEBskULI0oI1tCpP6d uYoAnR+sqTmBvx0GfrjIuL513Q5M7UZd =Lf6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig014880A7936364E9D5EE3287-- -- 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/