[PATCH 0/5] add bus driver for Unisys s-Par paravirtualized devices to arch/x86

David Kershner david.kershner at unisys.com
Tue May 17 07:27:56 UTC 2016


This patchset moves the visorbus driver (fromdrivers/staging/unisys/visorbus)
and its dependent headers files (from drivers/staging/unisys/include)
out of staging into the main kernel tree.

The visorbus driver is a bus driver for various paravirtualized devices
presented within a Unisys s-Par guest environment.  Drivers for these
devices are also currently present under drivers/staging/unisys/, which we
intend to also move out of staging immediately after visorbus.  All of
these other drivers are dependent upon visorbus and the include directory,
which is why we would like to move these first.

Our initial consultations with various members of the community have led us
to the conclusion that the most appropriate locations for these is:
    arch/x86/visorbus/       (driver)
    include/linux/visorbus/  (header files)

The rationale is that visorbus is dependent on x86-64 architecture.

David Kershner (5):
  staging: unisys: Move vbushelper.h to visorbus directory
  include: linux: visorbus: Add visorbus to include/linux directory
  Documentation: Move visorbus documentation from staging to
    Documentation/
  staging: unisys: visorbus: Have visorbus use include/linux/visorbus
  arch: x86: add visorbus directory to arch/x86

 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-visorbus        |   89 +
 Documentation/visorbus.txt                         |  337 +++
 arch/x86/Kbuild                                    |    3 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig                                   |    2 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/Kconfig                          |   14 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/Makefile                         |    8 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/controlvmchannel.h               |  485 ++++
 arch/x86/visorbus/controlvmcompletionstatus.h      |  101 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/iovmcall_gnuc.h                  |   48 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/periodic_work.c                  |  203 ++
 arch/x86/visorbus/vbuschannel.h                    |   95 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/vbusdeviceinfo.h                 |  213 ++
 arch/x86/visorbus/vbushelper.h                     |   46 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/visorbus_main.c                  | 1344 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/visorbus/visorbus_private.h               |   68 +
 arch/x86/visorbus/visorchannel.c                   |  635 ++++++
 arch/x86/visorbus/visorchipset.c                   | 2355 ++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/visorbus/vmcallinterface.h                |   91 +
 .../Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset  |   89 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt  |  337 ---
 drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig                     |    1 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile                    |    1 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/include/vbushelper.h        |   46 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig            |   14 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Makefile           |   12 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/controlvmchannel.h |  485 ----
 .../unisys/visorbus/controlvmcompletionstatus.h    |  101 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/iovmcall_gnuc.h    |   48 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/periodic_work.c    |  204 --
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/vbuschannel.h      |   94 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/vbusdeviceinfo.h   |  213 --
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c    | 1344 -----------
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_private.h |   68 -
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c     |  635 ------
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchipset.c     | 2355 --------------------
 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/vmcallinterface.h  |   92 -
 include/linux/visorbus/channel.h                   |  572 +++++
 include/linux/visorbus/channel_guid.h              |   55 +
 include/linux/visorbus/diagchannel.h               |   38 +
 include/linux/visorbus/guestlinuxdebug.h           |  180 ++
 include/linux/visorbus/iochannel.h                 |  571 +++++
 include/linux/visorbus/periodic_work.h             |   40 +
 include/linux/visorbus/vbushelper.h                |   46 +
 include/linux/visorbus/version.h                   |   45 +
 include/linux/visorbus/visorbus.h                  |  234 ++
 45 files changed, 7918 insertions(+), 6139 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-visorbus
 create mode 100644 Documentation/visorbus.txt
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/Makefile
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/controlvmchannel.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/controlvmcompletionstatus.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/iovmcall_gnuc.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/periodic_work.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/vbuschannel.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/vbusdeviceinfo.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/vbushelper.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/visorbus_private.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/visorchannel.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/visorchipset.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/visorbus/vmcallinterface.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/include/vbushelper.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Kconfig
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/Makefile
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/controlvmchannel.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/controlvmcompletionstatus.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/iovmcall_gnuc.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/periodic_work.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/vbuschannel.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/vbusdeviceinfo.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_private.h
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchannel.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchipset.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/vmcallinterface.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/channel.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/channel_guid.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/diagchannel.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/guestlinuxdebug.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/iochannel.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/periodic_work.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/vbushelper.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/version.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/visorbus/visorbus.h

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