linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module

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Message-ID: <20061130142435.GA13372@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:24:35 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
> 
> please move this from drivers/kvm/ to kernel/kvm/ [or even into a 
> toplevel kvm/ directory] - KVM is not a "driver", KVM enhances the core 
> Linux kernel with hypervisor functionality.

Actually it's exactly a driver.  It's a character driver that exposes
the virtualization features of modern x86 hardware.  Pretty similar to
things like the msr or mtrr driver that expose cpu features as character
drivers aswell.

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