linux-kernel - Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

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Message-ID: <4BE49FB6.9060206@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 May 2010 16:18:14 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@...ell.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
Subject: Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

On 05/07/2010 04:12 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:08:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 05/07/2010 04:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> This patch implements a cleaned up hypervisor layer, plus cleans up some
>>>> of the aspects of both Hank's MS-HyperV patch and the existing VMware
>>>> driver.  In particular, the MS-HyperV information is private
>>>> information, per system, not per CPU, and can thus simply be stored in
>>>> an ordinary global variable.  This also turns the hypervisor detection
>>>> into an information structure instead of just an identifier.
>>>
>>> This looks great to me, thanks for doing this work.
>>>
>>> As this is a diff on top of my previous patch, do you want me to merge
>>> it in with it and resend it, or will you?
>>>
>>
>> I was planning to put this on top of your patch as a second commit, just
>> to preserve history and authorship.
> 
> Wonderful.
> 
> Ah, I just realized that we cut-and-pasted the GPL lines from the vmware
> file, I don't want the "v2 or later" marking on the new file KY added.
> Want me to send an add-on patch to fix that up?
> 

Yes please.

	-hpa
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