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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:29:03 +0300 From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, david.vrabel@...rix.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch V4 1/3] usb: Add Xen pvUSB protocol description On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:08:01PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Somewhere that people can refer to that describes this public-facing API > that "must not ever be broken or changed". If you want to put it in a > documentation file, or a .h file, I don't care. > > > >>It is used e.g. in SUSE's xen kernel since 2.6.18. > > > > > >I am very aware of the amount of Xen crap in SuSE's kernel, don't use > > >that as an excuse for me to merge it to mainline :) > > > > :-) > > > > Wasn't meant as an excuse, just a hint why the interface can't be the > > same as for usbip. We have to ensure compatibility with those kernels > > This shouldn't be a kernel/kernel compability issue, as the api talks > between Xen and the OS, not between different OSs, right? > > > and possibly other operating systems (BSD?, Windows?) which already > > might be using pvUSB with a Dom0 based on the SUSE xen kernel. > > Are there other operating system drivers today that use this API? Is > this an API in the Xen core today that we have to support? > > Some more background / descriptions would be nice to have. > For example Xen "GPLPV" drivers for Windows do have PVUSB frontend driver.. -- Pasi > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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