Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:32:43 +0200

* Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This will generally be used for hypervisors to publish any host-side
> virtual devices up to a guest.  The guest will have the opportunity
> to consume any devices present on the vbus-proxy as if they were
> platform devices, similar to existing buses like PCI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                 |    6 ++
>  arch/x86/Kconfig            |    2 +
>  drivers/Makefile            |    1 
>  drivers/vbus/Kconfig        |   14 ++++
>  drivers/vbus/Makefile       |    3 +
>  drivers/vbus/bus-proxy.c    |  152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/vbus_driver.h |   73 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vbus/bus-proxy.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/vbus_driver.h

Is there a consensus on this with the KVM folks? (i've added the KVM 
list to the Cc:)

	Ingo