[libvirt] [PATCH 1/6] extend usb controller model to support xen pvusb

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Tue Jun 14 15:09:04 UTC 2016


Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 14/06/16 07:02, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>> On 06/12/2016 10:53 AM, Chunyan Liu wrote:
>>> According to libxl implementation, it supports pvusb
>>> controller of version 1.1 and version 2.0, and it
>>> supports two types of backend, 'pvusb' (dom0 backend)
>>> and 'qusb' (qemu backend).
>> IIUC, the pvusb backend has not gained any traction in the kernel and will not
>> be accepted upstream. Adding Juergen to confirm. If that is the case, I think it
>> should be dropped.
> 
> Correct. Upstream Linux doesn't have a pvusb backend and it seems
> unlikely it will have one.
> 
> You are talking about dropping it from libvirt, right?

Yes. Well, dropping it from these patches, which will someday make it to libvirt
:-).

Regards,
Jim




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