Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen pvfb: Para-virtual framebuffer, keyboard and pointer driver

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Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   
>> Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>     
>>> This is a pair of Xen para-virtual frontend device drivers:
>>> drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c provides a framebuffer, and
>>> drivers/input/xen-kbdfront provides keyboard and mouse.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Unless they're actually inter-dependent, could you post this as two
>> separate patches?  I don't know anything about these parts of the
>> kernel, so it would be nice to make it very obvious which changes are
>> fb vs mouse/keyboard.
>>     
>
> I could do that do that, but the intermediate step (one driver, not
> the other) is somewhat problematic: the backend in dom0 needs both
> drivers, and will refuse to complete device initialization unless
> they're both present.
>   

That's OK.  In that case keep them together.

    J
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