On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:33:46PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 12/06/15 17:20, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Introduces the Xen pvUSB frontend. With pvUSB it is possible for a Xen > >> domU to communicate with a USB device assigned to that domU. The > >> communication is all done via the pvUSB backend in a driver domain > >> (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device. > >> > >> The code is taken from the pvUSB implementation in Xen done by Fujitsu > >> based on Linux kernel 2.6.18. > >> > >> Changes from the original version are: > >> - port to upstream kernel > >> - put all code in just one source file > >> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree > >> - adapt to Linux style guide > >> - minor code modifications to increase readability > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> drivers/usb/Kconfig | 2 + > >> drivers/usb/Makefile | 2 + > >> drivers/usb/xen/Kconfig | 10 + > >> drivers/usb/xen/Makefile | 5 + > >> drivers/usb/xen/xen-usbfront.c | 1647 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > A subdirectory for a single file? That seems like overkill, don't you > > think? As this is a USB "host" driver, why not put it in that > > directory? > > > > Also, last time these patches were posted, people asked why you can't > > use libusb/usbfs instead, what happened with that? Or usbip? > > Using libusb was for the backend driver. This frontend driver is a host > controller (which is why it should be drivers/usb/host/xen-pv-hcd.c or > similar). Then document the heck out of that please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
