Amit Shah wrote:
> * On Wednesday 24 Sep 2008 12:01:12 Yang, Sheng wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 September 2008 14:15:15 Han, Weidong wrote:
> 
>> Another thing is we would send out/update above patches before Sept.
>> 28, and hope they can picked by 2.6.28 merge window.
> 
>> Avi, what's your opinion? Of course we would work hard. :) But
>> what's the deadline of merge window?
> 
> I'd say we have about 3 weeks to get things in.

Time is a little bit tight.

> 
>>>         - Add dummy driver to hide/unbind passthrough device from
>>> host kernel
> 
> This isn't needed; we currently don't assign the device to the guest
> if we find that a driver is already loaded. I intend to change it to
> failing guest start altogether in case we find a module already using
> a device. When a guest exits, we release all the structures and hence
> even unloading kvm is not needed to reclaim the device on the host
> side. 

This task needn't targe 2.6.28. For long term, we need it to make device
assignment more user friendly.

Randy (Weidong)
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