linux-kernel - Re: [KVM PATCH] KVM: introduce "xinterface" API for external interaction with guests

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:38:39 -0600
From:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avi@...hat.com, glommer@...hat.com,
	aliguori@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH] KVM: introduce "xinterface" API for external interaction
 with guests

Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> Note that if we are going to generalize the interface to support other
>> guests as you may have been suggesting above, it should probably stay
>> statically linked (and perhaps live in ./lib or something)
>>   
> 
> 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?

-- 
Zan Lynx
zlynx@....org

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