On Wednesday 05 May 2010 01:09:48 pm Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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If you have any interesting in developing this further, do:

 (1) move the limited VF drivers directly into the kernel tree,
     talk to them through a normal ops vector

[PT] This assumes that all the VF drivers would always be available.
Also we have to support windows and our current design supports it
nicely in an OS agnostic manner.

Your approach assumes that the plugin is always available, which has
exactly the same implications.

Since plugin[s] are carried by the host they are indeed always
available.

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Dmitry