Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: Introduce Xen pvUSB backend

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 08:41:21 EST


On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 14:31 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >> - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
> >
> > drivers/xen/ is the correct location for this driver.
>
> Hmm, so you regard placement of xen-netback under drivers/net and
> xen-blkback under drivers/block as wrong? I've just followed these
> examples.

At least in the case of netback it really is just a normal Ethernet
driver as far as the kernel is concerned. The fact it happens to talk to
a virtual device doesn't matter.

I don't know about other device types.

Ian.

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